Fiona Turner wonders which impossible task will be the death of her: renovating a massive, deteriorating, centuries-old English mansion and making it worthy of the Queen of England, or turning an American farmer into a proper English duchess.

Fresh off a painful divorce, Fiona seizes the opportunity to restore Alabarden Park and assist the house's new duchess, an effervescent American named Alice Stewart. Openly smitten, Alice's affection for her challenges Fiona's commitment to a professional distance and self-imposed ban on relationships.

Fiona Turner wonders which impossible task will be the death of her: letting Alice into her battered, broken heart, or keeping her out.