When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn into the art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers all scheming to get their hands on her painting - a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called 'The Improbability of Love'. Delving into the painting's past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but the darker secrets of European history - and in doing so she will learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.