Ever since she can remember Meg has wanted to be a professional cook. But it's 1964 and in restaurant kitchens all over England it is still a man's world. Then she gets a call from her mother who is running a small hotel in Dorset. There's an important banqueting event coming up. She needs help and she needs it now! When Meg arrives the hotel seems stuck in the past. But she loves a challenge and sets to work. However she has reckoned without Justin the son of the hotel owner who seems determined to take over the running of the kitchen. Infuriated Meg resolves to keep cooking - and soon sparks between them begin to fly. Will their differences be a recipe for disaster? After all the course of true love never did run smooth . . .