When Hazel Mayfield is sent to live with the Martins as a child, she falls in love with rural life and vows to have a farm of her own one day. Eleven years later, she receives an unexpected windfall as her grandfather hands her the deed to a plot of land in the middle of the capital. Ecstatic, Hazel sets out to realize her longtime dream of becoming a farmer. There’s only one problem: Her new farm is right next to the imperial palace! And it seems the emperor himself has his eye on her land…