It was payback, assigning Carla the job of writing the profile for her magazine's Perfect Southern Gentleman contest winner; her boss knows she thinks the Southern Gentleman is a myth. So she's supposed to do a hatchet job on this Redneck Romeo? Fine, she can handle it.
Beau would avoid the starchy lady editor and her magazine feature if he hadn't promised to cooperate; he's an ordinary guy, no matter how often the townsfolk set him up as a hero. Yet the closer he gets to Carla, the more he'd like to be the gentleman she needs…