Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you…

When teacher Leo Tyndale moves to the small English town of Sandercombe after five years in India, he does not expect that his time at the local school will be a long one.

But a brief encounter with the beautiful -and fiercely independent – Hestia Royce soon has him changing his mind.

As he settles in to his new position, Leo finds that his mind increasingly wanders to Hestia.

She is known by his pupils as ‘the strange woman’, who left Sandercombe to be married, Hestia returned without a husband to a town rife with rumours.
Leo can’t help wondering what happened…

Soon his feelings for her grow, though she is reluctant and soon the rumours about their supposed relationship swirl around Sandercombe.

Leo knows Hestia feels the same.