Valentine Baxter had just received the news about the death of her policeman husband via one of his colleagues. James Mitchell was strong and handsome, with a cop's dark, knowing eyes and she yearned for the safety and comfort of his arms. Was it wrong that Valentine felt this way about a man known for his womanising ways, when she had teenage children, and he was young and her late husband's workmate?

This series of romantic novels uses the city of Perth and surrounds as a background and is set in the 1990s, when it was unusual for families to have a home computer, before the mobile phone was in everyone's hand and social media was a thing of the future.

Each story follows the life of police as they deal with tragedy and triumph and find love in the most unexpected places. Interwoven with the police work are the tales of the personal lives of family, friends and fellow officers.