A summer holiday with her eccentric, infuriating family and assorted glamorous hangers-on is the last thing Tash French would usually volunteer for. But her mother is insistent and, out of a job and recently ditched by her boyfriend, Tash decides that spending July in the vast rambling Loire chateau might have its compensations. It's a summer of lust, bed-hopping, unresolved sexual tension, horses, dogs, bolshy kids and lots of bad behaviour. And in the midst of bedlam, at least two people fall in love . . .

Wedding bells or one big hitch? Tash French just isn’t sure. If her potty grandmother hadn’t mistaken a Christmas cracker engagement ring for the genuine article, there wouldn’t be a wedding at all. Still less the elaborate, no-expense-spared circus that’s rapidly taking over her life. But at least Tash can be sure of Niall – her actor fiancé. They know his script for the Big Day is already learnt by heart.

The cross-country course of true love never runs smoothly in this sexy, fun romp full of tight breeches and loose morals The horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport, but love is a professional hazard. Silver-tongued charmer Rory Midwinter is quite at home in this hedge-jumping, bed-hopping world. Having been born into the saddle, and with a rock star owner as patron, he has no intention of settling down—but his long-term groom Faith has other ideas. Tash and Hugo Beauchamp are the undisputed golden couple of British three-day eventing, but their mettle is put to the test by the arrival of The Devil on Horseback, brooding Kiwi rider, Lough Strachan. Lough holds the key to Hugo's darkest secret, and he intends to use it to access his greatest rival's beautiful wife.