Ruth Freeman has virtually everything she could wish for in life; everything that is except passion. A woman of wide ranging artistic interests, two intelligent teenage children and a high earning husband who in her twenties was the love of her life. But within this safe cocoon, she was bored. Her 40th birthday looms and Ruth wonders what lies on the other side of this female watershed? Was it to be more of the same; a marriage of convenience for both she and husband Philip? Her spirit rebels against the thought and when out of the blue an opportunity presents itself to become her own woman again, albeit for a brief week away from her small, provincial village, she grabs it. Planning her breakaway, she feels energized by the knowledge that what is gradually fermenting in her mind is exciting and unusual and will remain her secret. Looking in the mirror Ruth is well aware that at 39 she still attracts men’s roving eye, but until now, in her close knit community, she had never been tempted, nor thought of exploring that admiration any further. Now she has that chance! Had her husband been aware of his wife’s hopes and plans, he would undoubtedly not have gone abroad on business the week of her 40th birthday!