When Charlotte Whitfield receives a letter from her best friend Libby, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. Libby and James, Charlie's husband, have been having an affair. When James starts to threaten Charlie his erratic behaviour turns quickly into dangerous obsession. Charlie is forced to re-evaluate everything.

Lara Allen seems to have it all. But there is one part of her life that leaves an ache which all her success can never fill - a daughter she gave away at nineteen after a chance encounter in Portugal. Sometimes the things we think we've lost can still be found, and in the end there is nothing like family to teach us how to live, and how to forgive.