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Top literary agent Nora Stephens is familiar with all the tried-and-tested romcom plots, especially the one with a metropolitan billionaire who goes to a small town to replace a family-run business with a soulless corporation, falls in love with a local woman, and leaves the city and the ice-queen girlfriend he has there behind. Nora, who identifies with the ice-queen city girlfriend, has lived through this plot several times and, as a result, has a sense of dread whenever one of her boyfriends goes on a business trip to a rural part of the country. She senses that her current boyfriend, Grant, will break up with her because she did not visit him in San Antonio, Texas, when his appendix ruptured. Now, Grant tells her that he is not coming back because he met a woman named Chastity, and he will stay in Texas to help her parents run a local hotel. Although he is a privileged billionaire’s son, Grant acts as though he has completely changed his values and that Nora is out of touch with them. He also accuses her of not needing him, which Nora admits is true.

Nora laughs rather than cries, and although she is shaken by the news, she is determined to go to a lunch meeting with