Natalia Evelyna Vanderlyn spent twenty-seven years learning how to be exactly what her family wanted. Now the arrangement has left her with a magnificent vineyard, more money and time than she knows what to do with, the freedom to paint, and a husband who is almost never home.

There is only one problem: for the first time in her life, nobody is telling Natalia what comes next.

Soft-spoken, sheltered, thoughtful, and quietly curious, Natalia is beginning the much harder task of discovering what she actually wants. The new gardener recently hired by her family, arrives just as Natalia’s carefully scripted life finally runs out of instructions.