Abigail Beadle has given two decades of her life to first caring for her father who has developed Parkinson's, then, at his request as his health fails completely, looking after the centuries old family home Ashgrove House, In order to do that she has to put up with being ordered around by her stepmother Edwina, who is not a pleasant person. Abigail has never married because Lucas Chadwick, the man she loved when she was young, left the village suddenly...