The Moonbeamers

Set in the Mid-Nineties in the Melbourne Bayside suburbs the story follows Michaels search for acceptance in someone elses domain: Nothing could be more challenging for an adult than to move into another familys home.In their sanctuary you may always feel like an intruder - a permanent visitor - you may never believe youre entirely welcome.Your new partners friends are expected to become yours regardless of your likes or dislikes. Neighbours will look at you with suspicion - but it is with your partners children where the danger lies.You cannot be a substitute parent to teenage children - dont even try. The best you can hope for is a level of acceptance so you dont have to walk on eggshells around them each day.This is your new partners house and they will have a particular way of doing things - remember - its their home.Into such a world enters school teacher and divorcee Michael Freeman a man who must also become accustomed to the demanding film producer career of his new love Fiona.When Fiona must leave for Sydney to promote her latest project Michael is left with her precocious seventeen-year-old daughter Pixie - a girl hell-bent on making Michaels stay as uncomfortable and as short as possible - as well as Zac Fionas indifferent fifteen-year-old son who has recently discovered sex.Shocked when it appears Pixie may have been indecently assaulted Fiona returns home to questions over Michaels past. Support for Michael comes from unexpected quarters but once trust has gone - can love ever be the same?