Katianna is a successful entrepreneur who runs her own multi award-winning dating agency, Under the Setting Sun, in London where she also lives. She has Cypriot roots (her mother was Cypriot) yet has not visited her homeland since childhood. Her parents have both passed away.

She puts everything she has into ensuring the business is and continues to be a success; sees it as a reflection of her own worth. A woman who is driven, successful and financially secure.

A letter from a solicitor arrives summoning her to Cyprus; she has inherited her yiayia’s, grandmother’s, house.

In Cyprus, she is flooded with emotions and memories of childhood holidays and time spent with her yiayia in the mountain village of Omodos, surrounded by lush green vineyards. Her feelings surprise her, and she is not altogether comfortable with them.

She stays with her cousin, who helps her to navigate the building work which needs completing before THE VILLAGE HOUSE is ready for sale. He introduces her to a local builder, Polis, and the sympathetic renovation work begins. Savva also introduces her to Sofia, a woman who runs one of the coffee shops in the village, who is as equally driven as Katianna, and also Mihalis, a local restaurateur.

As the renovations unfold, sympathetically honouring the fabric of the old house, Katianna realises that she has feelings for Polis and also, growing closer to Sofia, who teaches her how to cook some traditional Greek foods, senses something between Savva and Sofia. Sofia reveals Savva’s involvement in an accident which left Sofia seriously burnt when they were both messing around as children.

Back in London, she discovers from John, her accountant, who later has a TIA and is hospitalised, that the agency is in huge debt and a bank loan is not forthcoming. She reluctantly considers selling the village house in order to cover the debts and save her business from financial ruin when John is not keen to approach his sister, Vicki, a financial investment angel, to help Katianna. Angie, her PA, reveals her mother has dementia. There is hope when a TV company offers her a princely sum for a fly-on-the wall series based on the agency which goes some way to solving Katianna’s money problems.

Back in Cyprus, she decides to put the house on the market but is shocked with the attitude of investors towards the traditional renovation of the property, the pull of her roots ever present in her decisions thereafter. Katianna also becomes emotionally entangled with Polis but their relationship is fraught with doubts, misunderstandings, and complications.

The story, however, finishes with a New Year’s Eve dinner celebration in THE VILLAGE HOUSE with Polis, Sofia and Savva, Angie, John and Vicki. Katianna has found happiness and love through THE VLLAGE HOUSE and her roots, proving you can have it all.