Ezra Evans is sixteen years old and, like most girls in 1936, she dreams of marrying her high school crush, Brad Abbott, living happily in his home as his wife, and eventually becoming a mother. But when her father, one of the most affluent men in the country, is murdered a few years later by a disgruntled sharecropper, everything changes. Suddenly, she and her mother have inherited his sprawling estate, and her plans for the perfect life fall apart. With her relationship in tatters, Edra has no choice but to move back to her small-town home and try to untangle her father's imperfect records. It's not long before she finds success, but it comes at a cost. Her love life has never been perfect, but after a series of failed relationships with men more likely to lie than love her, she's all but given up on the idea of happily ever after. That's when Brad re-enters her life, and Edra decides it's time to play a game of her own making.