Between the murky waters of the Thames and the candlelit rooms of Silverbourne Manor, two men are about to discover that the hardest race isn't on the water. Freddy Penhaligon-Warren is a senior rower, club captain and professional consultant who has perfected the art of keeping his personal life as disciplined as his training schedule. Andy is a bisexual photographer with a Mexican heritage, a Fulham flat, and a talent for finding beauty in human forms. When they collide in a Richmond café, a boat club changing room and an ill-advised champagne lunch in Fulham, neither of them is looking for a relationship. That, of course, is precisely when it happens.