Love weaves itself into the most unexpected places, like a desperately run-down beauty school in the middle of nowhere, Idaho, autumn, 1962.

The only thing that Stuart Crawford detests more than doing maintenance work at his grandmother's salon after school his senior year is the ridiculous girls that 'study' inside those walls - girls like his sister, Trudy. The first time he lays eyes on Frankee July changes everything. It's the first time he has needed an emergency haircut, ever.

Frankee won't even remotely consider putting a trivial thing like a crush in front of her beauty school dreams even though she has never seen a boy as handsome as Stuart Crawford. She's never been in a relationship before, heck, she's never even been kissed. Frankee has way bigger problems though like how she is going to pay for her new life and graduate high school and take care of all her other 'responsibilities' before her dreams slip away.

He has plans too, big ones, like taking over the family farm from his father and making a life in Steelhead. She wants nothing more than to finish school and get this life-stealing town in her rear view. Everything is going super, until someone close to them both has a propasal, one that Frankee may not be able to refuse.