How many first dates does it take to realize that you're… boring ? Modern wallflower and French teacher Trace is ready to let her frizzy red hair down—literally. To not keep wearing the happy face that can fool everyone in the small town of Foothills, Washington. Everyone except her former foster brother. Mercenary, antihero, Cole has spent the last decade running. Wounded after an op gone wrong, he comes home, and the meet-cute isn't so cute, when she bashes him on the head with the bathroom door by accident. After his shower. And laughs. He probably shouldn't tell her he's not only had a crush on her since they were in high school, or that he used the idea of her to survive.