College professor Eva Campbell is at the end of her rope. Her cheating ex playing a piano on the quad is only the most attention-getting stunt to try to get her back. When she threatens to set the piano on fire, firefighter Sean Hannigan is one of the first responders on the scene. Sean's friend suggests Sean offer to be Eva's fake boyfriend to get the ex to give up on trying to get her back. Eva reluctantly agrees to this plan and they start spending time together. The connection that starts as fake eventually turns real. But when Eva meets Sean's family and sees how great he is with his nieces and nephews, she needs them to take a break so he can figure out whether or not being a dad is important to him, since Eva doesn't want children. When the police have to be called to get her ex off her property, Sean is devastated that Eva doesn't tell him and thinks the break might have been a pretext for a more permanent separation.