Molly Harper is the long-suffering manager of Ireland's only dedicated romance bookshop - 'Happily Ever After' She can't stand the new owner but he does have a rather attractive son, Sam Her best friend, Paige Brady, has problems of her own She has just launched a general election campaign and is astonished when another woman on the ballot sheet starts to attack her in a very personal way Kate Bowan, shop assistant in a designer shoe shop, runs the popular dummy dating service 'Test-Crash Dates' by night But one particular client is proving to be more than a handful All's fair in love, business and politics as the three friends are about to find out