Charlie never goes out. She prefers the comfort and safe harbour her trusty old couch gives her. So, when she decides to join her work colleagues for drinks at a swanky London bar, she not only feels out of place, but the Universe has a nasty joke up its sleeve and it is aiming straight for Charlie: bumping into an old boyfriend - Richard Reid. Only, he isn't quite her Richard. No, this man is arrogant, cocky and vain. And Charlie might still not be healed from what happened that fateful day nearly ten years ago. Can this new Richard redeem himself from what he did? Or, is what he did so unforgivable?
Grace Webb walks around with her heart on her sleeve and falls head-over-heels for anyone who shows the slightest interest. She will do whatever it takes, be whoever she needs to be, if it means not being alone. At least, that is the old Grace. The new and improved Grace is about to celebrate her 40th birthday. And she does not want to throw herself at the feet of the next handsome man who smiles at her.Her best friend recommends a weeklong retreat at Heartstone Lodge. And Grace doesn't think living with seven strangers for a week is going to help her situation. But at this point, she'll try anything. After nearly two years of stonewalling, Callum's therapist said she could no longer help him unless he drops his walls and starts letting her in. He had been building walls around his heart for so long, they were too high for anyone to climb. And she wasn't going to waste anymore of his or her time.Callum asks for one last chance and she reluctantly agrees on one condition; he accepts her challenge to go on a retreat in the Cairngorms National Park. There was never a challenge Callum Stewart would not accept.Moving into a house with seven other people? How bad could it be?
