Spring has sprung in Merry-Thought Valley, Choiceland, Montana in the United States of America. The year is 1950 and Choiceland School at the base of Merry-Thought Mountain has appointed a new teacher Mr. Shepherd Lovewell. Aged twenty with hair of strawberry-blond and sharp merry blue eyes he soon favours an eighteen-year-old part Indian student named Fiona Foxglove. Her schooling is soon over and she begs him to tutor her after school hours in creative writing. Together they write a romance novel, together they fall in love. Could their spring romance cause Mr. Lovewell to lose his job? Fiona's cousin takes a liking to her teacher and tries with all her might to take him off her. Shepherd gives Fiona a special gift, they wed then she becomes a famous author, but in her struggle to keep her cousin away from her new husband the ending to her first romance novel about herself and her teacher comes to life in a twist and a life is lost.