When Mary moves West as a mail order bride, she expects the hard work, the rattlesnakes, and even the storms; she doesn’t expect to fall in love with her husband.
Mary Williams is at her lowest. After losing both her parents, she lives at the ruthless hand of her father’s acquaintance, Colonel Hank Remi. Remi is eager to marry her off to the highest bidder, even if it means to a vengeful man. Knowing she has no other choice but to leave Baltimore, Mary prays for an escape.
John Whitlock, retired Texas Ranger, wants to settle down in the West. With no intention of marrying for love, or of ever loving again after having his heart broken, John approaches a mail order bride agency.
After Mary and John correspond briefly, he asks her to marry him. Both agree it will be a marriage built on friendship, not on love, and Mary catches a train west. She arrives in the small town of Settler’s Creek and is shocked to find her husband-to-be spilling out of a saloon. Suddenly, she wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake.
As the days go by, Mary and John begin to set aside past demons and start to feel more than friendship for one another, but both are afraid to acknowledge. Then, when disaster strikes not once, but twice, Mary and John must rely not just on one another, but on God, to see them through to the other side.
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