Max or Mick?

It’s decision time for Linda when Max makes her an offer…

- ALISON SLADE

It’s a torturous Christmas for the Carters, but isn’t it always?

Once the most solid couple in soapland, Mick and Linda are like distant strangers; their marriage melting into oblivion faster than a snowman in the winter sun.

As Mick continues to push his wife away, traumatized by memories from his time in care, love rat Max swoops in. He and Linda have become more than friends lately. Determined to start a new life with her, he makes her an offer, forcing the former landlady to question her future…