After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms...

The only thing that can heal them...? Each other! The day they lost their son, veterinary nurse Bex and vet Ethan's world was left shattered. As they struggled to cope, their marriage fell apart. Now, five years later, Ethan is back in Bex's life - to treat a critically ill horse in her care. Being in each other's company again reminds Bex of every single thing that she loved about Ethan. But will it prove they are meant to be together - for ever?...