Lauren Hennessey (Danielle Panabaker) has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a reality as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant (Shawn Roberts). Slowly peeling back the layers of Dexter's tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable side to this big-shot chef. Suddenly, their dueling culinary styles become the perfect complement in the kitchen and an attraction between them starts to boil over.
Cassie and Sam clean up a storage room as they prepare to have Nick move in. Sam expressed how he doesn’t think Nick is taking his future, post high school, seriously. Cassie encourages him to give it time and it will all work out. The two get excited as their wedding is only two days away. Cassie comes across an old folder with a wedding photo of her great great great grandmother and her husband Douglas on their wedding day. Cassie reminisces on the history around the photo which was taken in front of a forever tree. Cassie tells Sam the tree is a sign of good luck for a lifetime of happiness.
Cassie and Sam prepare for the next chapter of their lives as Nick and Grace get ready to graduate and attend college. On the last few days of school, Grace helps a local fashion designer make a dress for a client. Martha continues to try and find clues to the Middleton treasure, and Nick’s mom, Linda arrives in town. Stephanie and Adam struggle to balance their workload and their relationship.
