Melanie was delighted when a total stranger left her all his worldly goods and a dilapidated cottage in Cheshire It provided a pleasant temporary retreat from her difficulties, but she was to find new problems in her neighbour, Luke Chalmers Was he really the friendly ally he seemed, or did he have a deeper motive for his actions? Not that she cared how he felt about her it wasn't as if she had any intention of getting involved with him