Evelyn St John has been parachuted into France to link up with the Resistance. Paul von Hoch's brief, as a member of German Intelligence, is to track down enemy spies. Suddenly the battle lines shift between patriotism and a deeper truth that says love is more important.

Prue and Max Valour thought that their marriage could survive, despite the age gap between them. But after 20 years, Prue must cope with her stepdaughter again, the girl who grieved for her mother and could not forgive Prue for being loved by her father.

Fanny Savage has always been the dutiful wife. Married to Will, a politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements. Though bound by loyalty to the party, after 20 years of marriage, she begins to question her happiness.

Disliked by her new family, sidelined at family gatherings, and now a mother of twins herself, Minty is struggling with disappointment and a crisis of identity. But the biggest obstacle of all is Rose - her husband's ex-wife.

Minty Lloyd is now the second wife to her husband, Nathan, but she is haunted by her very much alive, and quite reborn, predecessor Rose. Yet, after a shocking phone call, Minty finds herself united with an unexpected ally, the woman she once betrayed.

Barbara and Siena, two women living 50 years apart. Both constrained by choice; one has too little and one has too much. The intimate, inner lives of two women, destined never to meet, yet strangely linked, are woven together as they struggle to find resolution, between the families they love and their own desires.

No one has captured the complexities of marriage at middle age better than Elizabeth Buchan. Now she is back with another irresistibly entertaining and thoughtful tale of two women at the crossroads of love, of freedom, who wonder: Where does happiness lie?

For twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. But the carefully managed existence to which Rose has become accustomed comes crashing down around her when her marriage and her career both fall apart. Can Rose start over? Not easily. But it's amazing what prolonged reflection, the slimming effect of a lost appetite, and a new slant on independence will do, especially when an old flame suddenly reappears.