After an accident made the family lawyer suspicious, ex-soldier James Geraghty was hired as a replacement bodyguard for the heiress Aden Barrington. Broken by a relationship that wound up with a suicide James had determined that love was never to be a part of his life and lived as a man on the outside. What he didn't expect was to be renamed by the strange girl while she dragged him all over the countryside. Damaged by the death of her mother Aden Barrington had a strange defence mechanism and that was to rename the people around her. While she managed to find a place in the world as a respected landscape artist, she was well known for her reclusive and odd behaviour. Finding herself in danger from a cousin wishing to inherit her estate she escapes with James in a whirlwind adventure. Unexpectedly attracted to James, Aden slowly withdraws from her fantasy world to accept the responsibility of her inheritance. While James struggles to keep Aden safe while coping with her strange and deadly family. He had given up on love-she had given up on life. Not Really Mr. Smith-a unique love story.