An overweight English widow makes the long journey from England to her intended, a Texas cowboy. It turns out that neither got what they expected. For Regina it was a scrawny and unkempt Shakespeare-loving cowboy with a past, and for the cowboy, a large woman with an equally large personality. She is unable to shake the smell of dead roses that were placed at her husband's grave; he is haunted by ghosts from his outlaw past.