Elizabeth Jones at the age of twenty eight was well-established as a writer of children's books in England. And abroad so when her American godmother, left her a cottage in Massachusetts in a community just outside Boston. Within a easy reach of the downtown with the condition that she must reside in it for the period of twelve months before she could inherit it Beth as she was called by her family and friends. Decided that she would go over After all twelve months, wasn't a long time, and it least she could get a book or two out of it while she was there she met two men. Alex, the schoolteacher, who would have married her in a heartbeat, and Dr. James Grant, who she would liked to have been married to and who told her from the very beginning of their meeting that he had no intention of ever getting married at all Beth then decided. That when the twelve months was up she would keep the cottage and return to England.