During the booming 1920s Dianne Dameron was the privileged daughter of a real estate heiress and a dynamic builder of homes for the wealthy, but in 1935 her mother's fortune is gone and her warehouses stand empty while the small house Dianne's father is building is his last contract. At the age of 25 and with no prospects, Dianne is facing the reality of a long and lonely spinsterhood in the shadows of her parents' decaying mansion until an intense stranger with freshly shined shoes and polished manners begs her father for work; any work. Dianne finds herself irresistibly drawn to this unsuitable man. Not only because he is able to see the untapped potential in the struggling construction company and the vacant warehouses, but also in Dianne herself.