Belle's ability to separate work from pleasure is tested when she meets an alluring and dangerous new client; Poppy's curiosity gets the better of her, and she ends up wishing it hadn't.
Belle becomes the head of Stephanie's firm after Stephanie is sent to jail, takes in Poppy, Stephanie's naïve daughter, and travels to New York to oversee a film version of her book; Ben proposes to Belle.
Belle is hired to write a follow-up book and ends up falling for her editor, Duncan; Bambi falls in love with one of her clients, the rich, aristocratic Byron; Ben begins dating Belle's sister Jackie.