Jo Stanton has lived all of her adult life in France, scraping together a living as a gardener and musician at one of the most famous chateaux in the Loire valley and caring for her elderly grandmother, but a chance encounter with former concert pianist Henri Arnaud, and his son Thomas, brings an unexpected change to her life. Henri offers her a job restoring his neglected garden in England, where he lives with Thomas, a writer, and their housekeeper Barbara.
Keen to escape the unwanted attentions from one of her colleagues, she agrees. However, the move has more consequences than she anticipated and brings to the fore her troubled past, rekindling supressed nightmares from her childhood. Will she ever be free from the guilt of what she has done? As she falls in love with the garden and the family she has come to know, it becomes increasingly hard to hide her secret. But there is one man who is determined to uncover her past and help her, no matter what.
A story of loss, healing, and, ultimately, true love.