After reading her mother's secret collection of romance novels during her parent's difficult separation, seventeen-year-old Evangeline Logan begins a quest for the perfect kiss.
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.
A butterfly kiss that is not wanted by a tiger, an elephant, a stork, a crocodile, a hare, or a bat finds a home where an old man says goodnight to his grandchild.
Although he is too little to take out the garbage, give a piggyback ride, and perform other tasks as well as his Dad can, a young child knows that there is one thing he can do as well as anyone.