When Liberty Banks-Owens attends a Fourth of July picnic with her surly, unfaithful husband, Jake, things don't go as planned for the plus-sized Southern belle. First she pummels her insulting mate with a hearty dose of her hash brown casserole; then she indulges in a hot, impulsive affair with a seductive Italian hunk she meets at the picnic. Liberty always has a way of adding her own personal touch to every event. . . On this Independence Day, handsome art professor Antonio Bertini meets a woman who frees his heart and fires his sensual imagination. Not satisfied with a brief, impulsive affair, he aims to pursue his Liberty--and keep her close to his heart.