Cherise Newberry swore she'd never return to her North Carolina hometown, that she'd put her crazy family and all its drama behind her for good. But after she loses everything in the Florida real estate crash, her grandfather's offer to become publisher of their family-run daily newspaper sounds like a plan - even though it means she'll become the boss of her high school crush and former brother-in-law, J.J. DeCourcy. Little does she know the job will require her to save a failing business, investigate a tangled web of murder and deceit, and put her heart on the line.