Darcy Freer still lives with her parents in a two-hundred-year-old farm house on land that's been in her family for longer than the house. She seems destined to be wedded to the land for the rest of her life, but her passion lies in the novels she writes in secret. The story of her ancestor, Magdalena Dupuy, is her current project, but she's not only conflicted about "wasting" time on it, she's worried that everything she writes reveals more about herself than she's comfortable revealing. And worse, she's appropriating the lives of everyone around her.
When she discovers that someone has posted newfound information about Magdalena's husband, Anthony, on the family Facebook page, she's intrigued and reaches out with a simple "Keep it up" that precipitates her meeting Frank Buskirk and subsequently leads to so much more.