Billie Pearce, school teacher and divorced mother-of-two, has always enjoyed a quiet life, right up until the fateful day she starts riding lessons. On her first day at the stables, she meets Nick Kaharchek, the handsome, super-rich playboy who seems – inexplicably, in her view – to like her. To really like her. And despite Nick’s own hilariously chaotic family, Billie feels something back, something she never thought she’d feel again.

But for Billie and Nick, things are never simple. Someone is not happy about the couple’s blossoming romance – and it looks like they’re willing to kill over it…