'Joanna took the post of cook-housekeeper in a quiet Cornish village on impulse, as a means of getting away from an unsatisfactory situation. But she found her employer, Oliver Liversedge, just as unsatisfactory - he was certainly an exacting and unreasonable man! Not a bit like his quiet, considerate brother Adrian. Yet as time went by it was with the difficult Oliver that Joanna reached understanding and closeness. Was it love that was developing between them, or only friendship based on knowledge of each other's special problems? And where would Adrian fit in then and Mary Hislop?'