Independent, feisty, shop owner Rachel Edwards has officially sworn off men, and having spent the past year building up her life following trauma from her past relationship, she is strictly on a dating hiatus.

Living in a beautiful home in a new town, Rachel is finally piecing her life back together and has no room for distractions. Focused on carving her place in the antiques business, she's determined not to let her new Scottish neighbour, the arrogant Liam McKenzie, disrupt her plans.

On first sight they despite each other, and her neighbour warns her off his property but when Rachel's dangerous ex-fiancé returns, Liam is the only one she can turn to. As much as she loathes it, her nemesis may be her only saviour. Forced to accept an offer to move into his house, will her impenetrable walls survive the inferno between them.