Alice Richards’ dream is simple. She wants to buy the purple Victorian house on the corner of Poplar and Birch streets for her growing antique shop. She scrounges through her twenties, flipping rare furniture online and saving everything she can. She even convinces the old lady who owns the house to offer her a reduced price in exchange for weekly visits. The day Alice turns thirty, she arrives for her Tuesday visit to find the old woman dead. When Lena Luck, a computer programmer living in Silicon Valley, learns her grandmother has died and left the house to Lena, she hurries to the small New England town she has done everything to avoid. She wants to get in, sell the monstrous Victorian, get out, and forget the town ever existed. But when she arrives, the sheer amount of junk in the house makes her throat close up. Before Lena can even ask for help, Alice arrives on her doorstep… with cupcakes, a hug, and a steady stream of conversation. Lena can’t think of anything more horrifying, but it soon becomes evident Alice’s help is the key to a quick return home. They couldn’t be more different, but little-by-little they start to see their first impressions of one another are flat wrong. They even begin to—gasp—have fun. But what happens when things get serious? Can Lena find a way to show her affection for Alice? Can Alice win both the dream and the girl?