

With exes, new partners-of-exes and money all in the mix, home life is fast becoming a minefield and their new-found happiness hangs in the balance. Nobody said step-parenting was easy Anna and James are about to find out exactly how complicated it can be. And Anna's wild football-mad nine-year-old son declares war on bookish James. Their teenage daughters - one a studious high achiever and the other a cool rich girl unbothered by grades or exams - have nothing in common. But Anna and James's kids hate living with the loved-up couple and the new set-up. So when they separate, she couldn't be more thrilled to move in with James, a handsome lecturer who is everything her ex-husband is not: kind, thoughtful, and above all, reliable. Seventeen miserable years of marriage to man-child Connor have left her drained and ready for a new start. 1 bestselling novel from the author of About Us, Seven Letters and The Baby Trail _ What's a few more branches on the family tree? Things are finally looking up for Anna. They had one tiny little tiff which provoked the little jealous monster. They hadn’t lived their lives when they should have. But the feelings coursing through their bodies were both new and strange. Soon enough Dutch and Dawn started dating. Dawn became the star performer but soon had to run off. Dutch was with his family doing the karaoke. It was a Sunday afternoon when Dawn had taken her family out to lunch that she met Dutch. In everything including the bedroom duties. Leaving them both thinking that they were pretty useless. In so many families there is a ‘yours’ and a ‘mine’ scenario.
