There are three things Olivia knows will never change: her family, her love for Andy Zema and their beloved Buloke River ... But over one traumatic year, the past catches up with the present and everything, even these three, are shattered when two very different men come into her life.Olivia is a passionate environmentalist, deeply worried about the salination creeping into her beautiful river, and into the four neighbouring farms which touch at the Cornerstone.Since they were born, Andy, Lou and Olivier have been inseparable, but family dynamics have changed for Olivier. She is still grieving for her father, and her mother had taken in a hard-case boyfriend who Olivia can't stand.With the arrival of an attractive stranger, the life-long bonds of the three inseparable friends are strained to breaking point, and all that Olivier had ever known about her family, her future and herself, suddenly falls apart.