Archer Turner never thought he’d ever leave his career on an oil rig. Now he finds himself striking a deal with his aunt to take over the family hotel. All he had to do was find a wife. Archer is returning home, where he can trace his ancestry for hundreds of years. The oil rig he and his siblings worked on is shutting down. It was the same rig his father worked on too, but he is long gone. Archer’s only family apart from his siblings is his cantankerous aged aunt. If his father were alive, Archer would take over running the hotel. But he’s not, and his aunt, the current owner, is shrewd as she is conniving. The four siblings will inherit the hotel eventually, but Archer needs it now. His aunt will give them the hotel early if her proviso is met. All four children come home, and Archer marries within one year. Where the hell would he find a wife willing to marry a man who had oil embedded under his fingernails?

After years of working on the oil rigs, Jason Turner never thought he’d come back to Copper Island. The only thing getting him on the boat back to his hometown is Heidi Shaw. He has no idea if he will be greeted with open arms or a glacial stare. Jason is returning home, where he knows everybody, or at least used to. His brother has taken on the up-scale family wedding business, and he needs a chef. Fortunately, Jason oversaw the kitchen on the oil rig where he and his siblings worked. The only fly in the ointment is Heidi Shaw, the woman who he left behind all those years ago. His best friend’s sister. Jason never stopped thinking about his first love. He could still smell her perfume if he concentrated hard enough. Sneaking around was their forte, as his best friend had made it clear his sister was off-limits. When Jason left for the rigs to join his father and brother, Heidi left for midwifery school. Jason thought everything was okay until he received a message from his best friend that he was never welcome back in either of their lives. Life on the oil rigs and travelling the world meant he never did find out why his best friend severed ties and never heard from Heidi Shaw again. What will Jason find when he returns to Copper Island? He knows Heidi is the only midwife on the island because he kept track from afar. He doesn’t know if a woman who scrubs her hands clean every day would fall back in love with a man who has an oil stain on every piece of his clothing.

Luke Turner cannot wait to return to Copper Island. Freya Riley is the first person he will visit as soon as the boat docks. Since childhood, they’ve been friends and had stayed in touch when he left the island via letters, sealed with a lipstick kiss. Luke is the third sibling to return home to Copper Island. The only one who is looking forward to solid ground after being at sea for years. Can you fall in love through ink and paper? Luke has. He knows that for sure, but when he knocks on her door, the last thing he expects to see is the large rock on her engagement finger. Luke’s eldest brother drops the bombshell that he is to head up the events department in the up-scale family wedding business they have recently taken over. Luke doesn’t know anything about putting on an event. He’s a medic. Learning an entirely new career is his second problem. The first is his childhood friend Freya’s engagement to a mystery man she won’t introduce. Assuming her new beau is a teacher at the school she works, he enrols in an evening class to find out. Who will the mystery man be? And is Luke now regretting coming back to Copper Island?

Daisy Turner is the final sibling of the Turners to come home to Copper Island. She hoped her school nickname, nerdy girl, had washed away with the tides. Nathaniel Hill had given her the name, and it had stuck. His mean jibes hurt, but they say there is a fine line between love and hate. Daisy’s job working on the oil rigs with her brothers was as a forklift driver. Now that she was taking her place beside her siblings in the up-scale wedding business, a new career beckons. She can’t wait to put her newly acquired accountancy degree into action. Coming back to the island is bittersweet. Educated ahead of her age, Daisy left the island to join her brothers as a teenager. Returning a woman who had spent the last seven years in a male-dominated industry doing a man’s job. According to the men on the rig. Overly protected by her brothers, she’s desperate to spread her wings. So when she arrives at the dock, the last thing she expects is to crash into Nathaniel. Unfortunately, breaking his wrist was not part of her plan to make a quiet return to the island. Forced to spend time with Nathaniel as she feels obliged to help out shifting freight up and down the dock, she doesn’t expect there to be chemistry between her and her school bully. It’s palpable, electric. How will Daisy handle carrying residual hate for the man she cannot stay away from?