Banished to the back of beyond, in the middle of a long, hot summer, Gemand Dan Parker find their marriage filling up with secrets. As they work to reopen the Green Man pub, tensions andunacknowledged desirescome between them.From their first night, when Gem sees someone watching them make love from the edge of the woods, her fantasies of having two men at once start to grow and consume her. As the temperature rises, she becomes fixated by her imaginings of an impossible, gorgeous, otherworldly man in the forest. A man who could make her dreams come true and maybesave her marriage.