Hank Pavlik is the head of a ranch in Montana while his daughter Kelly is an assistant professor at Montana State University who is a hopeless romantic. One day, a solicitor named Mr. Grimsby arrives to deliver Hank the news that involves them having to go to Merania. When they arrive, they learn that Hank is the heir to the crown of Merania after a relative of theirs named King Viktor had passed away. As Kelly persuades her father to take the title, she meets the royal stable boy named Alex. Hank helps to improve Merania when the neighboring kingdom of Angosia led by King Nikolas plans to claim ownership of Merania if Hank is not into remaining its king as it was mentioned that Merania and Angosia used to be one country centuries ago.