1840 Hawthorn Village, Co. Waterford - Ireland
Christopher, a young doctor, Renata, a lovely herbalist, cremated ashes, a deathbed wish, and a wicked irascible mother combine to make a knotty mess.
Miss Brianna Walsh – a bonnie lass without a birthright. She paints likenesses of abandoned Ashcourt Manor. She secretly struggles with a deep insecurity arresting any notion of a future both for Ashcourt and herself.
Sir Finbarr O’Bannon – an heir to a ruined past. He’s returned to Hawthorn Village not to restore Ashcourt Manor in his mother’s memory, but to heal his own heart.