Cassie Madison has it all: a high-powered advertising career, an elegant Manhattan apartment, and a complicated, full, and gorgeous fiance. It’s a far cry from her youth in Walton, Georgia, house of the annual Kudzu Festival and warm, sticky summers. And then there are the bad remembrances, the heartache. When Cassie’s estranged sister calls to say that her father is certainly dying, Cassie understands it is time to set aside her feelings and go home and encounter the sister she hasn’t observed in 15 years. When her dad dies, he leaves the house to Cassie, who can’t wait around to get rid of it and make contact with New York, her work, and her fiance, even if it means having a programmer tear down the home. But something helps to keep her in Walton, and she doesn’t understand if it’s her mending romantic relationship with her sister; the amazing, aggravating Sam Parker, who wants her to protect her home; or the sensation of finally becoming home.