Meredith Reed, a forty-year-old architect turned demolition expert, desperately searches for the means to bury her grief. When she inherits her family's historic plantation home in Tennessee, she decides to start anew by razing the antebellum house and replacing it with a memorial garden. The plan is met with outrage from her family and her grandmother's estate lawyer. James Maximillian "Max" Chandler need two things to complete his life plan: become a senior partner and find his soul mate. He's been promised a promotion once his proposed legislation to protect all of the county's historic properties is approved. The wife part he finds more challenging. If only the talented and attractive Meredith weren't so aloof and didn't want to destroy the property he's grown to cherish.