Juggling a career as a TV reporter and raising a grandchild alone is challenging enough for lovely plus size 18 Jolene Jefferies. But then she meets Akron (Ron) Jamison, a strikingly handsome widower with a college-age son and teenage daughter. Ron is a carpenter who has started his own construction company and wants her help in convincing the city council to give him a grant to repair old houses in the community. Jolene knows she has her hands full, for it isn't long before their romance deepens and they try to build a house of their own. But will a dark secret from Jolene's past cause her to lose her career-and Ron's love?