Sian Bishop has moved to an idyllic Oxfordshire village for a better life for herself and her young son Rory. With her roses-round-the-door cottage, the perfect school for Rory just down the road, and her very own vegetable patch she knows she's made the right decision. She's also struck gold in Richard - steady, safe, reliable, he is the perfect man for her. But little does she realise she's now living in the village, Gus - the wonderful, irresistible, dangerous, unreliable and straight-out-of-a-Georgette-Heyer-novel, Gus - grew up in.