From the book jacket --

It's not as if Nels hasn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields and keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter -- plus sorting out a houseful of animals -- are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is yet another complication in her life, but when her old friend Sir Gerald dies and his son, Pierce -- accompanied by his glamourous American wife -- takes possession of The Big House, it seems that preserving the Fields is not on his list of priorities.