"Northern California girl Charlotte "Charlie" Lucas has two great loves: Diet Coke and Pride and Prejudice. But her passion for Regency classics is tempered by a very real fear: Charlie is terrified of having to endure the fate of her namesake--spinsterhood. Despite her best attempts to maintain a modern sensibility, she can't say no when an elderly neighbor asks Charlie to attend a charity ball with her grandson. Blind date or not, Charlie is powerless...

Stranded in Salt Lake City over the holidays, high-powered, highly pampered Tara Mollagen is rescued by Benjamin Whitmore--a tall, handsome Mormon visiting his sister for Christmas. For being a nice guy, Ben is rewarded with one aggravating situation after another until he takes matters into his own hands and Tara into his arms.