When Catherine "Cat" Simmons needed financial backing for her nursery, Hope's Garden, in Eden Iowa, she didn't expect that her new partner would be such a hands on guy. That wasn't what she'd had in mind at all. However, she soon learns that Gabe Farrell and his new ideas are just what the little stick-in-the-mud town needs. And, of course, eventually Cat comes to see that Gabe is also good for her.

Gabe has suffered an accident in his past that let him both emotionally and physically scarred. He'd come to Eden for peace and quiet in the laid back town. However now he's ready for a change. When he'd invested in Hope's Garden he didn't expect his new partner to fight his attempts to drag the nursery into the new millennium, but he can take anything she can throw at him, because he's determined to both make some changes and to make the partnership work.