After her engagement falls apart just before St Valentine's Day, Anemone Rose has an unpaid-for party and one hundred red roses going spare. Enter Will, Nick and Dan, who are not quite who they say they are, not where they ought to be, and not even what they claim to be.

Nevertheless, these three blond giants have a proposal. They will take the roses off her hands. In return, Anemone may choose one of them as a substitute for her errant fiancé. Oh, and she'd better find two other lonely ladies—one each for the men she doesn't choose. That's only fair!

Anemone chases them out of her shop with a mop and a bucket of water.

That's when she remembers Penny and Angel, whose delivery she messed up when her fiancé was messing her about back in November. Could they possibly be in the market for two men armed with thirty-three red roses and a naughty disposition?

With hours to go before the men's deal is off the table, Anemone heads to Mother Goose Lane for a crisis meeting with two women she barely knows.