Sam's hotel reservation is messed up, and he has to change hotels. Annie is in New York working on her latest book with her editor. Both are eating dinner alone until Sam gets up enough courage to ask to join her. They hit it off immediately, and in a two worlds collide sort of way, life imitates fiction. Things come to light that they have kept hidden. Can they trust each other? Is this part of the plan? Will they truly find a common path simply because Dinner Started It? Or is there more to overcome?

Meredith Grace is an author who needs a quiet idyllic place to write her next novel, and finds one on the grounds of Grey Oaks, a plantation in Louisiana. Niall St. Clair needs to escape New Orleans and a certain lady friend who has gotten the wrong idea about their relationship. As the owner of Grey Oaks, he seeks out his cottage for a respite, and to look at solving a 150 year old mystery surrounding the plantation. When he finds the cottage occupied by none other than Meredith, a rapier smart author who solves her own mysteries for a living, they become entwined in the mystery of the...