The Last Woman He'd Ever Date - Liz Fielding Claire Thackery: Posh Girl Turned Hard-working Single Mum. Now Selling Her Soul As A Gossip Columnist On A Local Rag To Earn A Modest Crust - Hoping To Get The Inside Scoop On Sexy Billionaire Hal North, Otherwise Known As Her Teen Crush! Most Wary Of: Gorgeous Men Who Set Her Heart Racing (been There, Got The T-shirt - Not To Mention The Baby). Hal North: Bad Boy Made Good. Back In His Hometown As New Owner Of Cranbrook Park. Determined To Put His Troubled Past Behind Him. Most Wary Of: Journalists, Especially Those Who Are Female, Cute And Pretty, Like New Neighbour And Tenant Claire Thackery... A Forever Family For The Army Doc - Meredith Webber As A Nurse And Single Mum, Izzy Halliday Has Her Hands Full. The Last Thing She Needs Is The Distraction Of A Man - Even One As Irresistible As New Hospital Director Nicholas Macpherson! Former Army Doc Mac Came To Wetherby To Heal His Soul - But The Sparks Flying Between Him And Stunning Redhead Izzy Aren't Bringing Him Much Peace! Mac Came In Search Of A Quiet Life But Time With Izzy And Her Daughter Soon Teaches Him The Unexpected Joys Of Chaotic Family Life... One Day To Find A Husband - Shirley Jump It Was Her Best Friend's Dying Wish That Ellie Adopt Her Baby And Raise Tiny Jiao As Her Own. But The Adoption Process Hits A Husband-sized Hump - To Adopt Jiao, Ellie Has To Be Married! All Seems Lost, Where Can A Commitment-phobic Female Find A Husband In A Day? Then Cut-throat Billionaire Finn 'the Hawk' Mckenna Comes To Ellie With A Proposition, And Ellie's Ready With Some Truly Ruthless Terms... Ellie's Rival Firm Is Finn's Only Hope, But He Wasn't Prepared For Ellie's Merger-with-a-twist... Marriage! Finn Has No Plans To Let Anyone Close, Even Someone As Feisty, Vulnerable And Downright Intriguing As Ellie. But Saying 'i Do', Even When You Don't Really, Has A Way Of Making Even The Most Stubborn People Wake Up And Realise What They've Been Missing...