Welcome back to Willoughby Close, with four new residents and happy endings to deliver…

Allison Neale is grieving. A year after her beloved husband’s death, she’s still left with far too many questions and is struggling with feelings of guilt, anger and grief. Hoping to rebuild her and her children’s lives, she moves to Wychwood-on-Lea with her two troubled kids—an eleven-year-old son with too much energy and a fourteen-year-old daughter flirting with the same depression that afflicted her father.

The warm community of women who have lived in Willoughby Close welcome her with open arms, and their friendship helps Allison find a semblance of peace. But when an entirely unexpected attraction to her son’s teacher, James Larribee, emerges after he gets into trouble, Allison is gobsmacked. James is charming, funny and ten years younger than her. Basically, completely unsuitable. Besides, her husband Patrick was her soulmate…wasn’t he?

As revelations about everything she once held dear surface, Allison wonders if she is reckless or maybe just brave enough to try for love a second time.