The H is a titled playboy photographer and an expert in meaningless hookups and the h is a vet. This is a 80s book so the h is all about marriages and not live in relationships. Having experienced a live in relationship that was going no where she expects marriage and kids from her next relationship. The H and h share incredible chemistry and have an affair and the H asks her to move in with him and the h writes a letter saying no. Then a chapter later they reconcile and the book ends with a HEA.