The story depicts the journey of an exchange student Xenia Neteski, a 28-year old British lady, who enrolls for a one-year course at Vologda Institute of Business in Russia. As she embarks on her adventurous quest for more knowledge in foreign business culture, she discovers the romantic and bewitching power of Russian "linen and lace." She then dreams of opening up her own textile business and possibly an enriching fashion career. Until one gloomy afternoon when she strolls along Vologda River, she brushes with a dark, tall and muscular man-exactly like those hunks she reads on historical novels-and mercilessly finds herself being intertwined into his equally enchanting world. Her journey has just begun...