Six months earlier, Julia receives a send-off from her boss and friend, Ali (Whitney Cummings), from her job as chief online editor for a storytelling website. Julia plans to work remotely from the mansion she will share with her fiancé David Connover (Geoff Stults) and her soon-to-be stepdaughter Lily (Isabella Rice). At David's house, Julia is greeted by his ex-wife Tessa (Katherine Heigl), who is not coping with the end of their marriage two years earlier.