Anna Carmichael is an accomplished garden historian, young, beautifuland already divorced.Work could make her feel like less of a failure at love, but the men she meets do nothing to simplify her life: Oliver Davenport, the charismatic, stylish grandson of a rich client, sweeps her off her feet with high-octane dates and a jet-setting schedule, while Will Sutton, gardener at the clients estate, pursues Anna with more primal pleasures. When Anna discovers that Olivers good life comes with a too-heavy dose of corruption, shes almost too far gone to get out. But is Will as unreliable as Oliver, just on a different playing field?