Brooke Foster has spent most of her life dreaming about a man she can never be with -- Lord Lysander, an English poet who mysteriously disappeared in 1825. Now a professor of literature, she publishes a scholarly study of the man whose work has become her obsession.
At a book signing, she meets a mysterious admirer who claims to know the answers to the very questions that have tantalized her for years. When she hears the amazing story of what really happened to Lord Lysander two centuries ago, Brooke realizes that her lifelong fantasy of meeting the poet himself, and revealing her love to him, might not be impossible after all.