Anna's boss has asked her to take young Luke Morrison into her home in Kauri Bay, and give him a chance to write a best seller. Okay, so she's a publishing assistant, and she guides authors through the process of writing, but Luke is one of 'the' Morrisons, stars of the literary and acting worlds in New Zealand for over a hundred years.
Her boss has paid a huge advance on the book, and there's every chance Panacea Publishing will fold, and Anna will be out of a job, if she doesn't succeed. Not to mention how will she pay the mortgage on her recently purchased villa in the lovely seaside town? So, no pressure then.
On top of that Luke is younger than her, and at 30 he's the same age that she and Jamie 'the most unreliable boyfriend in the world' were when they parted. Jamie had been her one and only boyfriend, and she still detests men of that age. She wonders if she can ever be professional enough to make this work.