In life, you play the hand you’re dealt, or do you? Standing up for herself hasn’t always worked out for Pearl Wilson, only daughter of a multi billionaire businessman. Just months away from her twenty-eighth birthday, she’s had enough. It’s time to put her foot down, but that might be easier done from a distance. Refusing to be the fringe benefit to her father’s latest business venture, she escapes her California home and, using an assumed identity, gets a job in a diner in upstate Vermont. Kyle Stapleton is at a crossroads in life and gambling on his future. While he mulls over his decision to accompany his mother back to her ancestral home, he returns to Forest Falls, the small Vermont community where he was raised. The last thing he expects is to fall for the new waitress at Maggie’s Diner, a down on her luck actress who’s hiding something, but what? When Pearl recognizes Kyle’s cousin at the casino, it’s too late for damage control. Knowing who she is, can Kyle lay his own cards on the table and save the relationship built on secrets, half-truths, and lies, or will Pearl’s hand convince her to run once more?