When Spencer moves back home to New Orleans with her three kids in tow, she's juggling single motherhood, her thriving therapy practice, and the exhausting reality that her love life has been put on indefinite pause—hello, trusty vibrator! Just when she's trying to get her feet back under her, her high school sweetheart Cooper reappears, still looking annoyingly perfect and now running his family's business back in town. The chemistry between them is undeniable, but Spencer's got three very real reasons why a rekindling romance might be the messiest decision she could make. As Cooper fights his decades-long feelings for the girl next door and Spencer questions whether she can balance motherhood with a second chance at love, these two discover that sometimes the best relationships are worth the beautiful chaos.

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