Area scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Clear, is thrilled when the business she works for lands the work of finding places for a new film version of Satisfaction and Prejudice, but her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to Britain. Kate travels to England to salvage Kevin’s and the business’s reputation before term gets out that he is missing.

Things go from bad to even worse when Kate arrives in Nether Woodsmoor, a quaint village of golden stone cottages and rolling green hills, only to come across no trace of Kevin except his abandoned luggage. Actually the rumpled, easygoing local scout they consulted, Alex, doesn’t understand where Kevin may be.

Increasingly concerned about Kevin and with an antsy director looking forward to updates about the preproduction details, Kate embarks on a search that includes a pub-crawl and cozy cottages as well mainly because stately country manors. But Kevin remains lacking, and she starts to suspect that the picturesque town and gorgeous countryside may possibly not be as idyllic as they seem.