Sylvia Rose Turner has no time to daydream of fairy godmothers, white weddings or debutante balls. Instead, left alone by an absent mother, she must raise a young brother and infant sister in less-than-ideal circumstances.

 

Holding steadfast to the values she learned growing up in rural Mississippi, Sylvia Rose's fight for survival is fraught with heartache and pain.

 

Despite fate granting her a comfortable life, Sylvia ponders the cost of her transformation from a simple country girl to a woman of wealth and status now living among the social elite in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

The answer comes decades later when Sylvia, now an elderly matron and grandmother, answers a knock at her door, triggering a series of events that will change her life forever.