After losing her job and ridding herself of her cheating boyfriend, Cedar Montgomery heads up north to visit her friend Jaime, a hillbilly lesbian in the throes of a gun-wielding feud with her neighbours. Cedar soon discovers that Hellcat is a small town filled with eccentrics, rednecks, gossipy old ladies...and Lucan Sprague, millworker and supposed town badboy, who is just too sexy not to have a fling with.

Cedar thinks everyone in town is crazy-until she discovers her birth mother living in the next town over and does something a little nutty herself when she kidnaps her, hightailing it back to Vancouver and sabotaging her blossoming romance with Lucan. When her mother disappears again, a wounded Cedar returns to Hellcat to find that Lucan doesn't want to be with her...or does he? Cedar can't figure it out, and it will take a surprise elopement, some spicy gossip, and a few meddling townsfolk to bring them together.