Ash O'Halloran knows she should be having the time of her life. She's twenty-nine, single and self-supporting. So, shouldn't she be out there every night, swilling Chardonnay and falling in love? Or, if she isn't, at least having a great time moaning about it with her best friends?

Doesn't she know how to be a single woman?

Trouble is, Ash likes things as they are. She doesn't do impulsive and relationships scare her to death. At the first hint of commitment, it's goodbye. No way is she going to let herself get hurt.

But as Ash watched Dan Morland - who employed her to cook the ultimate dinner the night he proposed to his girlfriend - trying to sort out a life with the woman he loves, she begins to wonder if being Miss Self-Contained-and-Secure might also mean Missing Out...