The latest novel in the Badgers Brook series - Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency since leaving school.
She is happy, but knows it is time for her to follow her own path.
She finds a new position but quickly realizes the owner, George Dexter, and her father dislike each other intensely.
Neither will explain why.
Their quarrel is so bitter it results in a secret from the past being revealed; one which threatens to destroy Meriel's family.