Belle arrives home from New York to a nasty shock that leaves her in a fighting mood, so she unleashes the closet wrestler in a client and confronts dominatrix Charlotte; relations with Ben hit a new low.
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.