Laura overhears her family talking and discovers that she has an incurable illness and not much time left to live. Sheâs spent her whole life in late nineteenth-century England doing what her parents have asked of her and has never had a chance to fall in love. Now, with death looming, she decides to live whatâs left of her life the way sheâs always wanted. Sheâs only met the mysterious Sean once before, but she decides to ask him to marry her. Laura offers him her inheritance if heâll help her travel and give her a taste of freedomâĻat least, for the time she has left.