Escape to Lilacwell:

Adira Summershas spontaneously quit her high-flying career as a barrister in London. She needs to escape from the rat race and, encouraged by her bohemian gran, has bought a campervan to do so.

Taking off for a tour around Britain, disaster strikes early on when her van breaks down outside the quaint village of Lilacwell. But things look up after she meets handsomeJasper, who is visiting to check on his ailing uncle and his crumbling estate, The Laurels.

Return to Lilacwell:

Times are changing in Lilacwell. Not only haveJasperandAdirasettled into The Laurels manor, newly engaged and firmly casting off the shackles of their respective city lives, but Adiras friend and ex-colleague,Rory, is now also looking to leave London for the quiet beauty of the Forest of Bowland.

Sparks flew when he and Lilacwells innkeeper,Cassie, met at the summer party a few months ago, but Cassie has been loved and left before and is reluctant to put all her trust in Rory, who might return to his promising law career for the right offer.

Together in Lilacwell:

Eva needs a change. After a tragic miscarriage and breaking up with her unsupportive boyfriend, she is desperate for a new start somewhere peaceful, where she can focus on her pottery.

It is in The Cobbled Courtyard of Lilacwell that she meets the mysterious Fitz, a carpenter who similarly escaped to the tiny village a few years ago.