Platonic friends Riley Smith and Nate Fisher have just received their MBAs from Stanford University. They go on a bender together to drown their different sorrows, and awaken the morning after in bed together in a Las Vegas hotel room--and discover that they got married. Riley had hit the drink because the corporate job offer she had in Los Angeles fell through for reasons not of her own doing, and she is deep in student-loan debts. They plan to get their marriage annulled, Nate offers Riley a job with his family's struggling business in small-town Cedar Falls, Tennessee, and dyed-in-the-wool West Coaster Riley ultimately accepts--if only temporarily while she gets on her feet financially. What she doesn't expect is that Nate tells his family of their marriage, thinking they'd accept her working in the business if she's family herself. Riley also makes several discoveries in town. First, the reason for Nate's bender was that he was about to propose to his high-school-sweetheart girlfri