gilly bettencourt is almost as fed up with writing witty descriptors for a sportswear catalog as she is with her on-the-sly workplace relationship with the ceo's son that makes her feel like a dirty little secret. after catching her boyfriend with another woman, gilly leaps at the opportunity to head to ireland as a writer's assistant on the much-anticipated tv show, the chieftain's son, an irish historical drama based on an insanely best-selling series of romance novels. when gilly meets jack o'leary, star of the series, passion blazes between them. unfortunately, the show insists on branding jack as an available heartthrob--landing gilly in the type of hush hush relationship she crossed an ocean to forget. can their love affair survive the demands of the show's pr machine, or is gilly doomed to be typecast as the girl behind the scenes?