Widowed single parent Elise Trent thought no one could replace her husband Peter, until she met policeman Mark Hampson. She is forced to seriously re-think her life when her mother-in-law Joan accepts a proposal of marriage from long time companion Seth Baxter, and her student daughter Angie and Mark's son Kyle get involved with an action group. Then Elise and Mark are further thrown together by a spate of country house burglaries ...