He’s big, bearded, and bad-tempered, hiding out in paradise . Grumpy Alaskan pipeline worker Jake Sloan has traveled halfway around the world to escape family tragedy and a foul betrayal. Vague plans of roaming cobblestone streets for a few weeks give way to an on-the-spot hire as head groundskeeper at a swanky French château resort… whodda thought? The snobby guests are as tough to swallow as the slimy snails, but the scenery just got a helluva lot better in the form of an angel-faced goddess. Might be time to scrub away the sweat and get sociable… She’s got the bridesmaid blues, but that changes rapidement . Cee Cee Butler has signed up for bridezilla servitude to her bossy cousin in exchange for seven days on the famed C ô te d’Azur. It’s no cakewalk, but the waitress/wannabe food critic vows to be the perfect maid… with the help of the frigging powers that be. That’s before she locks eyes with the brawny American slinging the suitcases. Oooh-lah-lah, those mighty muscles! One shared glance with this dead ringer from her filthy fantasies is all it takes to send her virtuous intentions packing, and a mutual inferno ignites before the sun sets over the Med. But clouds loom on the idyllic horizon…