The Sweet Shop

Jarvis Marshall has it all: a famous rock star with a beautiful model girlfriend, he has money and success in abundance. His past as a young boy growing up in a small rural community is now far behind him. But his band has split up and he has a nasty case of songwriter's block and a West End Musical to score. Then his mother dies, the last of his estranged family, and leaves him the house in her will. So Jarvis returns to the village he left at age 15, to the house where he endured so many beatings at the hands of his cruel father. Among the demons of the past he finds many of his old childhood friends, and Katie Powell, the young woman who now runs the village sweet shop. Katie endured her own hardships, losing her mother when she was 12 and being brought up in her grandfather's sweet shop. Jarvis and Katie form a bond of unspoken understanding, much to the irritation of Jarvis' stunning German supermodel girlfriend. But the biggest problem of all is Jarvis and Katie themselves. Although they understand each other's grief intimately, they don't seem to be able to find the common ground to let their growing affection bloom. Jarvis is a rich, famous rock star who lives in the city. Katie is a broken-hearted country girl who runs a sweet shop. One of them changing isn't enough--both must face their pasts, then find the courage to break the chains that hold them apart.