Maggie West is perfectly content with her life as a single, twenty-five-year-old homebody extraordinaire. But when her best friend asks her to bring a plus-one to her wedding, Maggie reluctantly agrees to go on a series of (increasingly disastrous) blind dates. Even worse, the weeks before the wedding bring her in constant company with Jack, the wedding’s dour, disapproving best man. He has a knack for showing up at her worst moments and seeing her all too clearly — even the parts of her she’s spent years hiding. When a panic attack at work forces Jack to take a month-long sabbatical, he drives across the country to stay with his oldest friend. As exhausted and threadbare as he feels, though, the prospect of a month off is as daunting as it is unwelcome — he has no interest in rehashing all the things that led to his breakdown. The presence of quirky, accident-prone Maggie — and her uncanny ability to shatter through his tight reserve — only further unsettles him. But when a rogue protective instinct has Jack offering to help her, the tension between them shifts in the wake of an unsettling realization: maybe all of their broken, hidden places are the very ones wqhere they need each other the most.
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