It's 1998 and Kim is a journalist in New York City. He thinks he's found the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, intelligent and, it goes without saying, a sensational lover. The only catch is that she doesn't want just him - and he's agreed to it. For months on end, Kim is tormented by the knowledge that his Elise is sleeping with someone else. Can a man be so smitten with a woman that he allows himself to be entirely ruled by her? A bittersweet love story about how far you can go for the woman you love - and the price that has to be paid.

Kim is a waiter in a Dorset hotel, an absolute hot-bed of sex. But he's seeing none of it. Instead he falls for Cally, a 43-year-old artist who is steaming with chutzpah. She is a woman who grabs life by the throat; she knows what she wants - and most of the time she gets it, too. She lives only in the moment, losing so many of her nine lives that it's almost as if she has a death wish. Kim finds love as he has never known it before - but even when he's completely in Cally's thrall, he's still unable to resist the allure of other younger women. A couple can bridge a 20-year age gap, but can...

Kim is a young trainee reporter in the Cotswolds. He has the luck to be swimming every morning with the astonishingly beautiful Sasha. Men go crazy for her. Kim dreams up a plan to win her heart: for a full year, he'll pretend he's not even interested. Then Kim eventually does the unbelievable. He wins Sasha round. She is everything he's ever wanted - fun and beautiful and supremely sexy. But can something this good ever last for long?