I know Caden Everton can never be mine. 

He’s the billionaire’s son, poised to inherit Everton Estate, his father's prestigious wine empire based in our quaint town of Magnolia Bay. I'm just the baker at my family's local bed and breakfast.

But Caden isn't like the other guys from the wealthy side of town—he cares about Magnolia Bay and the people who make it run. Even though I know I put the "hopeless" in hopeless romantic, I can't seem to squash my dream that one day, he'll see me as more than just a friend. And it feels like over the past few months, our friendship has started to become something else...something more.

But on the evening of Everton's seventy-fifth anniversary gala, just when it seems like the tension between me and Caden has finally reached its boiling point, an unthinkable tragedy strikes—and threatens to ruin our love forever.