Lizzie's world has been turned upside down by two new arrivals. The first is Alexandru, a handsome but troubled young Bosnian refugee to whom Beth finds herself extremely attracted, and Tori, Beth's cousin, who's trouble with a capital T. Is Doyle family history about to re-enact itself?
Twenty-seven years old, still single and worse, still living at home with her parents in Dublin: Jenny Joyce wants something new to come into her life. But at her cousin Cathy's wedding in Connemara, she discovers that something old can be even more fun. Hugo Hunter, her first boyfriend, has grown up, unbelievably, to be the sexiest man in Ireland. But the course of true love is running anything but smoothly. For a start, Hugo has inherited his father's vast country estate, and keeping it together seems to take up nearly all his time. And then there's his glamorous girlfriend, the singer. He says it's all over between them, but she's still there. And Jenny has a few complications of her own. Her boss, the charming ladykiller Louis Leech, can't keep his eyes off Jenny, and would like to get his hands on her too . . .