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In late 19th-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto, "Give the sweetheart what she wants." His renowned charm also received the center of socialite Delia Spencer and resulted in an infamous romance. The night time of the Great Fireplace, as seventeen-year-old Delia pieces the flames grow and consume what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can't think about how much her life, her city, and her complete world are about to change - nor can she reckon that the agent of that change won't simply be the flame but way more the man she meets that night. Leading the way in rebuilding following the flame, Marshall Field reopens his well-known dried up goods store and transforms it into something the entire world hasn't seen before: a gorgeous palace of a department store. He and his powerhouse coterie - including Potter Palmer and George Pullman - usher in the age of robber barons, the American royalty with their generation. But behind the opulence, their private lives are riddled with scandal and heartbreak. Delia and Marshall first turn to one another out of loneliness, but as their love deepens, they will stand alongside one another despite disgrace and ostracism, through an age of devastation and opportunity, when an adolescent Chicago is transformed into the gleaming White City of Chicago's World's Good of 1893.
