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In Carroll City for an interview, Chicago native and software designer Reid Lucas, who has a history of falling for married women, has a drink with his potential employer and is arrested for DUI. He calls Jane, a girl he’d just met, and her roommate Alyssa Knight reluctantly bails him out.
To pay her back, Reid goes to Jane and Alyssa’s apartment to cook dinner for them. He is dismayed to learn that Alyssa is a police officer and technically still married, though separated and awaiting a church annulment. He is attracted to her, but she is suspicious of his motives. He leaves his complicated past in Chicago. finds an apartment in Carroll City, and is settling into his new job when his boss, Victor Baird, is murdered. Reid is questioned by Detective Macias, who believes he was involved with Baird’s wife. He is a suspect—or was he the intended target? He enjoys a friendship with Alyssa and Jane, but he wants so much more. Even though she just wants to be friends, he takes her dancing, and after she files for divorce, they keep ending up in bed together. For Reid, cooking is an act of love, but it isn’t enough to win Alyssa’s heart or untangle the mystery of his boss’s murder. Will he find love with Alyssa, or he is next on the killer’s list?