To some people Dorabella is a dizzy romantic caught up in her own dreamy world but to her mother, Lady Henrietta De Vomty, she is totally infuriating. Having refused every suitable suitor suggested drastic measures are called for. Banished to stay with her cousin, the spendthrift Lord Adam Beauchamp, not only does Dora's poetic muse desert her but she clashes incessantly with her cousin's new fiancée, Ruby-Mae Then as the wedding approaches, tensions rise and Adam's gambling increases; but Dora has her own worries, stumbling across the guilty secret of a dubious ancestor from the family's otherwise illustrious past. The deceptions increase, tempers flare and hearts get broken; it seems that no-one can ever be truly happy. After all, can life ever really have a fairy-tale ending?

Life is never dull in Drayton Beauchamp but for Zoe it feels as though her world has been turned upside down. As her elderly employer is rushed off to hospital and the dog rescue centre is set to close, she doesn't think it can get much worse... Until a city developer and his girlfriend turn up and threaten to build a new housing estate on the beloved allotments. With the village up in arms and the tensions rising, Zoe finds herself plunged into the centre of the controversy with some dramatic unforeseen consequences. Everything falls apart but, luckily, it turns out a dog really is a girl's best friend.

Whoever said life in the country was boring... Alicia's a smart sassy lawyer who won't stand for any nonsense. She lives for payday, Prada and becoming a Partner of the firm. Having shaken the proverbial rural dust of Drayton Beauchamp off her Jimmy Choos, she knows exactly what she wants out of life. At least, until one disastrous summer, she thinks she does. Then, stuck back in the village she grew up in things start to get complicated as she rediscovers old friends, Matty the farmer's wife with a passion for fashion and Chloe, the eternal romantic. As she clashes with her mother's favourite gardener, deals with aggressive clients and sees her friend's marriage fall apart, she finds that she becomes inexplicably bound to the village. However much she tries to leave it appears fate has other plans. Whoever said life in the countryside was boring couldn't have been more wrong; there's always a rural affair.