Eliza Wingate, a young and humbled widow, is left with nothing but debt piling up following the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, George. Upon her late husband's demise, she throws herself to the mercy of George's wealthy elder half-brother Lewis Wingate. Lewis, also a widower, who has lost not only his wife but also two small children to the same sickness that took his younger half-brother has secluded himself for these past ten years, mourning their deaths in isolation. Together, with these two grieving souls now residing within the same four walls, will a new love blossom, or is another failed love story waiting to happen?