One Winter Weekend

Cara Reneau is the relationship columnist for Seattle-based Mallory, an on-line women's magazine run by the demanding editor-in-chief, Diane White, the type of boss who expects her writers to delve into their own private lives, but in living their lives, also expects all her key staff, including Megan's best friend, Diane's assistant Megan Marquant, to be available at her beck and call. When Cara catches her boyfriend cheating on her on New Year's Eve, Cara decides to go on what she calls a "dating cleanse", something that Diane encourages her to use as the subject of a series of three articles Cara is to write, one per consecutive days, on her and Megan's weekend snowboarding getaway to Clara Lake, the situation of the getaway to factor into the articles. In addition to the snowboarding and the articles, Cara hopes to get some personal writing in on her mystery novel as she contemplates using it if she decides to accept the position in the creative writing graduate program at Berkeley. At Clara Lake, Cara and Megan, out of circumstance, are forced to spend time with two strangers, friends Ben and Sean, they, in the necessity of their forced time together, who decide not to talk about work. While Megan and Sean get along, Cara and Ben immediately butt heads, Ben's evasiveness about his life in its totality which Cara takes as a minor challenge to discover Ben's story in her mystery writing mindset. But in their shared love of books, Cara and Ben eventually do make a connection. As Cara and Ben start to fall for each other, the other finding out about the other's work life may lead to misconceptions threatening them taking their relationship further once off the mountain.