Olive Kozlov was once a celebrated young novelist. When her fiancé died, she put down her pen, picked up a whisk, and built Cupid's Wings, a gourmet chicken-wing restaurant that became one of the hottest tables in Los Angeles. She runs her kitchen like a general, and her heart stays locked up just as tight.

Then a pop-up shop starts appearing around the city, selling better wings for less, and on Thanksgiving night her reservations drop from three hundred to seventy-five. Olive is determined to unmask the "Banksy of chicken wings" before Christmas, or lose the restaurant and leave her whole staff out of work for the holidays.

Help comes from Bodhi, a scruffy, charming stranger she meets in the poetry section of her favorite bookstore. He knows her lost novel by heart, and he believes in her more than she believes in herself. As Olive falls for him, she starts to write again.

There's just one problem. Bodhi owns the pop-ups.