Tess hasn’t experienced many kindnesses in her eighteen years, so when her boyfriend abandons her at a small-town gas station, it’s one more crappy event added to the pile. Without a car, money, or cell phone, her options are limited, and calling her parents isn’t one of them. When the family that owns the station throws her a lifeline, she grabs hold, because even the worst situations can have a silver lining, and this one is a town called Jasper Creek, a diner everyone calls Earl’s, and a young mechanic named Colten Reed.