Emily Birmingham has had it up to here with men. It was hard enough growing up with an overbearing father, but then he dies and leaves everything to her brother—everything Emily’s worked her whole life to build. Now she’s jobless, living in her grandmother's dilapidated house in the middle of Nowhere, Canada, and dealing with the most annoyingly sexy contractor on the planet. Exactly when did her life become the nightmarish opposite of a Hallmark movie?

Cooper Merrick learned the hard way that love is never worth the risk. He’s happy running the family contracting business alongside his well-meaning but overly-opinionated brothers...happy enough until polished and perfect Emily enters his world. Nothing prepared him for the ways she turns his life upside down and sees the parts of himself he’s closed off from the world.

Now Cooper’s finally found the nerve to ask her out. Only Emily has some requirements before she even considers going out on a date—like a contract with some very specific ground rules. Signing on the dotted line sounds simple enough…but every contract has its fine print.