Ellen Shrimpton is going home to clear her mum's cottage ready to sell, and it's great to be back in the tiny village she grew up in...that is until she finds herself face to face with Will Saunders, her first love and the man who broke her heart at Christmas, 15 years ago.

Returning to the quaint village of Little Claydon, and tasked with packing up her parents thatched cottage, Ellen is determined to get everything done and get herself safely home to London by Christmas Eve. But the villagers seem to have other ideas and she is quickly involved in activities that distract her from her purpose and throw her directly into the path of Will.

He's looking good - too good - and it soon becomes clear the easy familiarity and chemistry they once enjoyed is still there and still strong. Will is keen for them to become friends - and perhaps more - but Ellen is still angry and hurt, painful and confusing memories of their last Christmas together still burned into her memory. And that's before she meets the woman and two children living with Will!

Thrown together at the most romantic time of the year, can things ever go back to the way they were?