This story is about a young black woman who came from rags to riches left an infant to a strong struggling black family that had a lot of love but not much money. Diamond's birth mother Lillie a young girl with trials of her own living in a nightmare of an abusive mother who decided Lillie was the reason of her unhappy life made her life hell but no way was Lillie going to make her daughter live through her horror so she gave Diamond a chance to live by giving her up. Diamond went from the garbage can to the mansion but still trying to find genuine love from a man that could deal with a successful black woman without his hands always in her pocket but his mind on her heart.