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Midsomer Murders meets The Forty Year Kiss (but with protagonists in their late 40s). 

When her long-estranged soulmate and 90s music star, Bas, reaches out to Sarah on the anniversary of her partner’s death, Sarah and their close-knit group of childhood friends track him down to the picturesque village of Oxstone and find a very different man to the one they knew. 

Their old friend is now an alcoholic recluse, broken by the pressures of celebrity, hiding behind a false identity, and being blackmailed by his much-younger “wife”, Izzy. Bas and Sarah are immediately drawn back to each other, despite Sarah’s better judgement, and they embark on an affair. 

But Bas isn’t the only one with secrets. When his thirteen-year-old guitar pupil discovers human remains in Oxstone Woods, and then Izzy is brutally murdered, all manner of skeletons come tumbling out of the closets. 

Can Sarah and Bas navigate their rekindled passion and his journey towards sobriety while solving the mysteries of Izzy’s murder and her possible connection to the bones in the woods, or is it too late for second chances? 

A queer, polyam, bisexual second chance romance murder mystery.