A keen sense of adventure has always set Beth Lowell apart from her family, creating tension with her mother, Jan. Beth criss-crosses the globe for her job and can't imagine how her widowed mother can endure the predictable life she leads. But all that changes when Beth finds a note hidden in an antique tea set and learns that Jan has kept a shocking secret from her. Beth's search for her birth father takes her to an enchanting tea estate in the Himalayan foothills, accompanied by a handsome British businessman. And the revelation of a long-hidden past moves Jan to embark on a new journey of her own one toward reconciliation with her daughter, and possibly even the courage to love again.