The story moves around the American scholar Ronald Michelle and a British junior professor named Maud Bailey. The American scholar is in London on a fellowship on the poet, Randolph Henry Ash who is best known for his wonderful poems which he dedicated to his wife. The British professor on the contrary, is researching the life and works of the lesser known Victorian poet Christabel LaMotte. One day in the archives, Roland discovers some manuscript pages, in Ash's work, which appear to be letters to an unknown woman, perhaps Christabel LaMotte herself. LaMotte met Ash briefly at a dinner, and they never encountered each other again. This is what history tells, but Roland and Maud join hands to dig the history and reveals the secret love affair between the two poets, Ash and LaMotte. They discover a heap of love letters that linked the two poets, centuries back. As the growing mystery leads them from dusty bookshelves to a fun thrilled romantic and further more, their adventure, in a very fashionable way, and begins to mirror the romantic journey of Ash and LaMotte, over a century earlier. The dead poets represent a life force that gives color and definition to the pale modern lovers.