Jillie Oliver, a young woman from a provincial town on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's main line, finds adventure and love thanks to her feisty grandmother, Izzie, a red headed Englishman named Rowan Atkins as well as a sophisticated Frenchman named Beau Monet. While accompanying her grandmother, Izzie, on a trip to visit Izzie's family in Dorset, England, Jillie's entire life changes. The names of all the characters in this novel are totally fictitious. Any resemblance to actual living people is totally accidental. Some locations and historical references are fictional while other historical dates and events are actual.