Nearly a year has gone by since Prue's untimely death,. Peter and Cassie are still separated but Peter is looking for a reconciliation. Cassie is bringing up Prue and Gavin's baby daughter Eve and hopeful of continuing her affair with Gavin, but she gets a nasty shock when she rings his flat and a woman answers. For Gavin is now in a relationship with student Vicky, who is desperate to move in with him, but Gavin still has not forgotten Prue. Meanwhile Peter's former secretary and lover Sarah returns to the UK now married to businessman boyfriend Geoff Roberts, but a devastating phone call for her husband changes all her plans for married life.