Miller Rhinelander has writer's block Nine months after his mother's passing Miller finally decides to head back to Chicago to deal with selling the family's estate. Considering he was in a funk and he was already past deadline for his eighth novel, now was as good a time as any. When he arrives at his childhood home he meets Jessie, the young woman who had been taking care of the home while waiting for Miller to return from New York. Her free spirit and vibrant personality clashes with Miller's rigid, nomadic and cynical lifestyle. Sparks really fly when Jessie announces that she has information pertaining to Miller's wife who was murdered seven years earlier. Jessie agrees to help Miller get the house ready for sale. That is if they can find a way to get along. Miller is a lost soul. Jessie is a kindred spirit. And ORANGE IS THE WARMEST COLOR.
Ty Brock and Kirby Kendall seemed destined to never see each other again Destiny changed its mind. Months later they had run into each other several times by chance. After Ty nursed Kirby back to health after a horrific car accident, the two unexpectedly and against all odds began having feelings for one another. Their new bond was met with downright rage from their best friends, Hattie Fitzpatrick and McKenzie Johnson, the latter having been the wife of Chase Johnson and Kirby's older brother and the man whose life and baseball career had been forever changed via a fastball to the head from fellow budding baseball star, Ty Brock. After enduring great times and bad, months after Kirby's accident, it was evident there was more than friendship. With the aid of Ty's first psychologist and brilliant doctor Jed Epstein, Ty and Kirby pursued their feelings and after a time they had had it with their friends' frustration and blatant hatred towards the new "couple." They gathered the people closest to them for a sit down chat. The conversation was one sided as Ty and Kirby told the story of how they had fallen in love. Along the way random acts of kindness erupted around them, coming from those they least expected along with their own random acts. Would those acts drive them closer together?Would their relationship implode despite their strong feelings as the tension between friends would take first priority? And, most importantly, could Ty and Kirby dictate their love or would animosity eventually tear them apart? Little did they realize at the time that a simple trip to the dentist would alter their lives forever.
