Steven Kincaid is the last unmarried male in his family...the much-lamented unmarried male. He knows he needs a good woman, but the right one hasn't come along in his thirty-seven years. Until his new neighbour moves in.

Meg is not the marrying kind, and Mr. Kincaid needs to keep his distance so that she can keep her sanity. Unfortunately, the accident-prone man is getting under her skin—and she is starting to like it. But growing up as she did has made her wary and feeling unworthy of love. When her parents show up, it will be up to Steven to be her buffer and the thorn in her side that makes her re-examine her life.