When Tansy Poole inherits a run-down shoe shop in the village of Sticklepond, 'Cinderella's Slippers' is born, providing the footwear to make any fairytale wedding come true ... If only everything in her personal life could be as heavenly. Tansy takes refuge in the shop's success, but one man who isn't thrilled by the stream of customers hot-footing it to Cinderella's Slippers is actor Ivo Hawksley. Troubled by a dark secret in his past, he has come to Sticklepond to nurse his own broken heart. However, Ivo realises that he and Tansy have a link in their past and soon, they find out how secrets shared can make a very strong bond indeed.