He’s the annoying jerk driving her crazy. She’s the fiery nightmare impossible to ignore. That’s what they believe — for now.

 

Rielle Osborn is on the fast track to frustration. She’s juggling motherhood and her job as a hospital radiology technologist while dealing with an ex-husband who’s crossing into the unreliable-dad category and a current relationship that feels emotionally unfulfilling.

 

She used to swear her life couldn’t get more complicated — then her old neighbor’s antagonistic son moved next door.

 

Boston business owner Heath Bennet is wading through a divorce. Needing peace and a place to live, he returned to his childhood home. But his desire for a quiet existence crumbles when the years of animosity between him and Rielle resume.

 

After unforeseen events bring Rielle and Heath together, they question their long-held perceptions about each other — and find themselves falling in love.

 

But when the pair envision a future together, an unseemly incident brings everything to a halt.