Rosamunde Pilcher: Das Haus an der Küste

While London businessman Nicolas Breen prepares to move with his family to an aunt's Cornwall seaside estate, which is transferred to them now she gets too old, he dies in a car accident. His young widow Veronica still moves with their kids and takes a job with real estate agent Frank Kirby, her first love. Young James bonds trough his golden retriever with mysterious mathematics professor Marcus Rydale, who snaps up the room Veronica offers for rent. She starts falling in love with him, until daunted by grim rumors and another girl he's discretely intimate with.