Beth doesn’t want to be a burden, especially to the brother who took her in at fourteen. As she turns twenty-one, her family pressures her to marry, but a refused marriage proposal harms her reputation. Her chance of finding a husband in her hometown eliminated, she resorts to composing an advertisement to become a mail-order bride.
Since his father’s murder, Pete Haseley has been single-minded in his search for the killer. He has little thought of marriage, let alone to a girl he’s never met. But to please his grieving mother, he agrees. For he assumes, if he can run the largest ranch around how hard can marriage be?