The Gardens of Covington

Hannah, cool-headed and calm, battles to save their beloved hills from rapacious development that has already ruined Loring Valley, only five minutes from Cove road.

Amelia, giddy with a newfound love, abandons the ladies and her photography to please her dashing new beau. And Grace is driven to prove she has an eye for business when she and her steady companion, Bob Richardson, open the Cottage Tearoom.

New friends and neighbours are introduced. Eccentric Lurina Masterton, an eighty-one-year-old bride, brings tears of joy to all when, wearing her childhood dream of white satin, she marries "Old Man" who is ninety-one. And George Maxwell, the ladies' closest neighbour, provides an inspired solution to preserving Covington's lush hills and valleys.