Stacey Williams wants to make her parents happy. Unfortunately, marriage is the only answer. But as a journalist, she doesn't have time to date, much less get married. So, she concocts a plan to place a personal ad for a temporary husband in the newspaper for which she works. Little does she know that she is creating more trouble than she imagined. Her boss wants her to write an article about her ad. Then the only man who answers her ad turns out to be the insufferable Lance Owens, a man she has been investigating for months. Her plan quickly spirals out of control. Her parents are thrilled with her choice of a husband, she becomes legally married to him, her boss is onto her antics, and she is facing the toughest decisions she has ever made. All the while, falling hopelessly in love with her Temporary Husband.