Hannah is an only child with a good job as a contract clerk at the Port Chalmers company, but at 46 her only relationship ended some years ago, and she has sworn off men. Then the family lawyer tells her there is a branch of the family at the other end of New Zealand, in the Bay of Islands, and her half-uncle Monty Balfour has left her a bookstore in Kerikeri that has lain undisturbed for nearly thirty years. She meets Barry, a possum trapper, and there is a spark between the big city girl and the wild forest man. Surely she couldn't leave a well-paid job, and travel the length of the country, to take on the uncertainty of owning a bookstore, could she?