Vanessa Mills, a pop culture writer and aspiring novelist, snags the interview of a lifetime with the famed, enigmatic, and reclusive mystery author Martin Clayborne in his small rural hamlet, only to discover that her own ambitions, desires, and romantic life have taken a second seat along the way. When Vanessa goes home to Portland and receives an unexplained present from Martin, she makes an unexpected choice and finally follows her own advice to "move fearlessly in the path of your ambitions and live the life you envisage."