Thirty-one-year-old author Nicka Jack Banks is better at writing romance than finding romance; she prefers penning stories about her family to participating in family, until she is pulled from the page and pushed into both.

No longer content with writing formulaic romance novels, Nicka produces a manuscript that's anything but safe, predictable, or romantic-it's based loosely on her family. Armed with her manuscript, she returns to her childhood home in Tennessee to prepare her family for the release of her upcoming book. Her father offers to give the novel his blessing-but only if it...