Plot Synopsis

Faye McArthy and Lydia Harper are rival bakery owners and former best friends who've been feuding for years, each determined to win their small town's upcoming pumpkin pie baking contest. With the fall season in full swing, Faye sustains an injury, preventing her from entering the competition. Since her bakery is struggling financially and would greatly benefit from winning the high-profile bake-off, she urges her daughter, Casey, who manages the bakery's business affairs, to take her place. Having no pie-making experience, but wanting to support her mom, she reluctantly agrees to enter the contest. When Lydia learns that Casey will be standing in for Faye, she, hoping to capitalize on the publicity that "passing the family feud to the next generation" would generate, insists that her son, Sam, a professional chef, who aspires to expand his mother's bakery into a full- service restaurant, battles Casey in the pie baking showdown. Though they are rivals representing their feuding families, sparks soon begin to fly between them as they prepare to compete against each other. Agreeing to keep their blossoming romance hidden from their families, Sam secretly teaches Casey how to bake a pumpkin pie while Casey helps Sam develop a business proposal for his dream restaurant. Soon Faye and Lydia find out and even with their children romantically involved and the future of their businesses at stake, the two competing bakery owners can't decide if they're ready to bury the past.