Plot Synopsis

Taylor McCall is a young retail clothing store manager who dreams of leaving her small Ohio town to work in the New York fashion industry. One summer day, Alyssa Shaw, tyrannical owner of A-Line, a trendy Manhattan boutique, walks into Taylor's shop and impressed by her direct approach, hires her to manage her New York store. When she arrives in Manhattan, her glamorous expectations clash with the city's harsh realities as she's forced to share a cramped apartment with a vapid co-worker and discovers that A-Line is faltering financially. As tensions rise, she meets Philip, a handsome realtor, who helps her search for a desirable apartment. When Alyssa pressures her to increase revenue, Taylor uses her honest small-town sales approach and begins to turn a profit. Before long, she starts to fall in love with Manhattan and becomes attracted to Philip. When A-List's investors threaten to pull out unless a higher profit is reached by summer's end, Taylor uncovers Alyssa's personal clothing designs and, encouraged by Philip, uses them to launch a fashion line. Convinced that her designs won't sell, Alyssa angrily chastises Taylor. Feeling humiliated and frustrated with Philip for giving her bad advice she returns to Ohio. But when she learns that her idea yielded success and that Alyssa now wants to make her a partner, she returns to New York, only to find Alyssa contemplating a different deal. Now she must figure out how to save the boutique, while maintaining its originality. Along the way, she just might finally let love into her heart.