Charlotte Lawrence widowed at thirty-four decides to return to all things pre-Peter & that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage & the constant attentions of her interfering sister Hilary. Most of all it means Alex Ivy Cottage's drop-dead-gorgeous tenant with whom Hilary is determined Charlotte should find love anew & whose charming exterior hides his own secret tragedy...