Forty-year-old Julia Whitman is finally independent after escaping from a controlling mother and an adulterous husband. Julia has left her past behind in Missouri and made a new life for herself in Scottsdale, Arizona. She and her friend Lauren have opened their interior design business, Touch of Jules, and are enjoying successful business and personal lives. Twenty-four-year-old Austin James has also escaped home in a move that has sent him across the country from North Carolina to Phoenix, Arizona, to finish college and start his own life. Neither is looking for love, but when the two meet, an attraction ignites. To Julia, Austin seems mature beyond his years; he makes her feel things she hasn’t felt in a very long time. Austin is shocked when he discovers that Julia’s so much older, but he knows that she holds his heart in a way no one else does. Can they defy conventional rules to forge a relationship that withstands the judgment of their families, friends, and society?