'Looking back on it now, I can see it was instant. The second we locked eyes. Boom. Just like that. And despite the carnage it brought to all our lives, I don’t regret it.' Mel is living the dream. She’s a successful GP, married to a charming anaesthetist and raising a beautiful family in their plush home in Perth. But when she boards a flight to Melbourne, her picture-perfect life unravels. Seated on the plane she meets Matt, and for the first time ever she falls in love. What begins as a flirty conversation quickly develops into a hot and obsessive affair with consequences that Mel and Matt seem incapable of facing. As the fallout hits friends and family, Mel’s dream romance turns into a nightmare. Yet she learns that there are some wounds that never heal and some scars that you wouldn’t do without. Love at First Flight takes everything you believe about true love and spins it on its head.