Chloe Spencer was enjoying a quiet life in North Carolina, until the phone rang. After learning she had inherited an old and mysterious English mansion, she quickly hopped a plane to Somerset, and began the most bizarre journey of her life. Smitten and obsessed with a portrait in the mansion's library, Chloe soon discovers the man in the painting was murdered nearly two centuries earlier. Somehow transported back in time to within days of his demise, she must convince the untrusting, yet irresistible Brandon of what lies ahead for him, all the while wondering if she will ever make it back home or if she is bound forever to a life she had never dreamed of.