Emma, a botanist from Washington, DC, has arrived in England full of expectations. She intends to collect a plant she needs for her research from the garden of Brice Palliser, a distinguished aristocrat. Despite the beautiful plants and buildings and the high rank of the earl, she’s most excited to meet the local pen pal she’s been writing to the last few years. But as it turns out, the man who signed the letters, whom she believes to be a London photographer, is none other than the Earl of Palliser himself…