A romance set in the Scottish Isles, and North-West England. Retired teacher Peigi MacKenzie has long since resigned herself to never marrying. She has sold her house in the Hebridean village of Balvaig, and is financially secure. But looking after her late niece Serena’s two young children isn’t what she’d planned, although she has grown to love her new home on the Wirral peninsula. She’s ready to take desperate measures to reinvent herself. Out of the blue, she meets Liverpudlian ex-policeman Kevin Phillipis, a widower. The attraction is mutual. Within months, they decide to marry. Then Peigi’s world comes crashing down, and the voice echoing in her head is her strict, religious father’s: ‘Happiness is a signal from the Devil that he’s looking to trip you up.’ Was finding second-chance love late in the day too good to be true after all?