Dottie Hogan is divorced, depleted, and done when she loads up her dog and four Hefty bags of clothes and heads back to Fightingtown and the Quinn family lake house, where the promise of family and a gallery job beckon her like a moth to flame. Instead, she finds her childhood sanctuary has a massive culture chip on its Appalachian shoulders and her feisty Aunt Lo appears to be losing a feud with Fannie Fraser and the Citizens Against Virtually Everything when she closes her gallery and leaves town.

Before Lo goes, she gives Dottie the keys to the Red Arrow, a condemned hardware store, and says if Dottie fixes it, the property is hers to keep. Dottie can't get a loan, is tired of being alone, and knows nothing about using a drill, but when she spots an old moonshine still, she decides on a new, if dissonant, direction in an evangelical town with little taste for liquor and tourism.

Dottie and a relatable cast of characters, who know plenty about damage and repair, including the ever-handsome Crawford Woody, unite against time and undeniable forces as they transform the Red Arrow into the first brewery in Bluff County—rebuilding each other along the way.