Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to tumor when the town’s coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, using a three-year-old daughter to care for and a damaged heart to fix, he moved across the country to discover a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Right now he tends pub by evening and tries to navigate existence as an individual dad by day. Fortunately, his neighbor is certainly happy to babysit while he functions late evenings. She’s great with small Kate, beautiful, kind … and lately he’s found himself smiling whenever about Hang on Tight he thinks about her.

Dani Brown also knows what it’s like to lose a partner and raise a child on her very own. Cleaning houses throughout the day, and taking online classes during the night, she dreams of working her own preschool someday. And, since her fourteen-year-old boy Jeremy’s baseball team requires a lot of money, she’s thrilled to gain some supplemental income by watching her good looking neighbor’s adorable little girl. But despite having two careers, she’s having difficulty making ends satisfy.

When Jackson sees Dani working herself ragged on her behalf son’s baseball ambitions he decides it is time to get the Bridgeport Sociable Club involved. Collectively they cook up an idea. They will run a charity poker tournament to aid Jeremy’s desire and help you a hardworking one mother. But will Dani be able to accept help from your good-looking neighbor she’s beginning to feel more-than-friendly emotions for? And how far is she ready to let those emotions go?

Prepare yourself to fall deeply in love with Shelley Shepard Gray’s Bridgeport Social Club again, in which a poker night is so much more when compared to a video game of cards and an extraordinary community of ordinary women and men come together to provide love, light, and hope to everyone they encounter.