The truth is that Annie Richards is just too busy to fall in love! Running a successful cake-making business, acting as caretaker to grand country house, Buttersley, and not to mention single-handedly raising her five-year-old daughter is more than enough to keep Annie's (flour-dusted) hands full! So can someone please remind her why she agreed to train for a marathon as a '40 things to do before you're 40' pact with her same so-called best friend?! With every hour of day already taken up, the arrival of crime writer Jake O'Donnell at Buttersley shouldn't really have any impact on Annie's day-to-day life at all. There's definitely no time in her carefully scheduled day for daydreaming about drop-dead gorgeous authors. Is there? But between whipping up batches of her signature limoncello cupcakes, Annie realises that Jake, and his twinkling dark eyes, can't just be ticked off her mental to-do list as easily as she though. Especially when it seems that no. 40 on her list could be...

Crystal Balls Tina Harding is a successful estate agent with ambitious plans to open a chain of Harding Homes. Whilst reluctantly accompanying her colleague, Chantelle, to a local psychic fair, Tina receives a call from her sister announcing news of her engagement. The news forces Tina to look more closely at her own relationships; or lack of. Feeling despondent and in need of a little hope she bids her farewells to Chantelle, rushing back for a secret reading and is warned that her life is about to roller coaster out of control unless she learns to make and trust her own decisions. Tina dismisses the reading as an act of foolish spontaneity, but after experiencing a series an unfortunate events Tina decides she is tired of learning by her mistakes and embarks in a plethora of other psychic readings in an attempt to provide clarity and direction and a short cut to all things good. Crystal Balls.......gaze into the unknown.