Skyler Dayton trades the beach for a family-run independent bookstore where work rivalries and comic foibles revolve around her bombshell arrival.
In the series opener, Skyler enlists the bookstore gang's help in ending her relationship with her philandering rock-star boyfriend while Gavin begrudgingly asks Skyler to return the favor to make his ex-wife jealous.
Dissatisfied with Skylar's lax work ethic, Gavin wants to replace her with another candidate who seems ideal, but he agrees with Stuart to let the two compete for a day before a final decision is made.
Comments about Skyler being a "groupie" come back to haunt Gavin when he proves to be one himself. Meanwhile, Skyler tries to get Katrina in to see her favorite band and Harold tries to make amends for telling Stuart he has no chance of ever being with Skyler.
When Gavin reveals that he had a sex dream about Skyler, it upsets the delicate balance of the entire bookstore and throws it into a sexually charged tailspin.
When Gavin volunteers to retrieve Skyler's grandfather's watch from her ex-boyfriend Eddie, he ends up getting sucked in by Eddie's charms himself. Skyler attempts to get her mind off Eddie by attending a knitting group, headed by Katrina, and finds that the company of women is quite different from her expectations.
Everyone at the bookstore behaves oddly after Skyler starts telling people she loves them.
Skyler is shocked when her oldest friend announces she's marrying an elderly man.
Skyler's old rival, Nikki, sets her sights on Stuart.
A member of Gavin's former writing club publishes a critically acclaimed novel, inspiring Gavin to write one of his own. Skyler and the others don't think it's good.
An iPod is found in the bookstore and Gavin looks at the songs in it and sees that they're songs he likes. Skylar makes him think that the owner could be his soul mate. When a young woman comes to claim the iPod, Gavin asks her out and just when things are getting heated, her parents arrive and she reveals how old she is.
Feeling as if Harold is lonely, the guys try to set him up with various women. And Katrina has a health inspector checking her out and after a little miscommunication, Katrina is labeled a bigot.
Katrina is pining after a guy who comes in regularly and when she can't find the courage to talk to him, Skylar decides to throw a Western theme party. Skyler also cleans out Gavin's closet.
After Katrina and Stuart spend the night together, they go in to work and are not sure what to do about it. Gavin is concerned how this could affect the business, because technically, they are her boss and what happened could be construed as harassment.
When Gavin experiences all the symptoms for gallstones, he decides to get surgery. When the nurse gives numbing drugs, Gavin tells Skyler he loves her—and it wasn't just the drugs talking!
When Harold's daughter comes to introduce her new boyfriend, Harold doesn't exactly warm up to him. And rightfully so, the man's a hypnotist and he uses his ability to get Skylar to make out with him. When Gavin sees this, he doesn't know what to do.
Harold's daughter Zoey and Gavin are on their third date, and the pressure to have sex with each other is put on him by Skyler and Katrina. So Harold talks to Gavin encouraging him to do so.
A musician opens a music store next to Stacked Books. He plays the music so loud, customers are starting to take their business elsewhere. Gavin, Stuart, and Skyler all go over and try to stop him.
Gavin's son Owen needs a new suit and a haircut for an interview at a conservative private school. Gavin can't take Owen because he is a finalist in an online poker tournament, so Skyler volunteers. When Gavin's ex-wife Charlotte returns to pick her son up, she is shocked by his new appearance.
Skyler tries to make things right with Gavin and Charlotte by going on a date with a boring headmaster. Harold realizes he has been missing out on six years of free coffee by not participating in the bookstore's card stamping system.
