When Elise Sherborne inherits a château in the Dordogne she imagines a life of rustic ease perfectly suited to her romantic and laidback personality.

Only when she moves to France she discovers that Château La Fleur is a crumbling ruin and the money that goes with it hopelessly inadequate. She also has a tenant: the super-masculine and attractive-yet-arrogant Jean Belair.

But when a man from her past turns up she finds herself torn – should she choose the man her heart yearns for, or the inescapably hot Jean who excites her to her very core…?