When newly single Sarah Peterson rents a cottage on Kit Roseberry's country estate and swops cooking supper for rent, she isn't expecting TV producer, Magda Holmes, to fall for Kit and his culinary skills, or offer him a slot on her TV show. Kit can't boil water, but he's got the look and needs the money. Magda is keen to go for a traditional feel, happy families, picnics on the beach and birthday teas, so Sarah - along with her two boys - finds herself as undercover cook, and an instant wife and family for Kit's TV debut. But what will that do to Sarah's fresh start, her new man, ex-husband...