'In the dark before dawn, the cock crowed. Not the feathered variety.'
Miss Dimity Minto, a prim and proper office clerk, who is sometimes slow on the uptake, embraces a latent streak for revenge that creates her lifelong secret...

An escape to the country is wished to get her stabled horse onto pasture. The escape must be fast tracked due to a mishap at work.

Dimity is destined to love two men. One is her best friend and the other, her obsession.

Three deaths have been caused. One by accident, one on purpose and the other 'accidentally on purpose'.
Dimity's perceptions mature in time.

Fate forever links the futures of Dimity and her two handsome lovers.