In 1910, in the untamed Montana wilderness, schoolteacher Juliana Mitchell, disowned for her refusal to marry, discovers that she is no longer averse to marriage when she meets widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, who is searching for a governess for his young daughter.

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman...and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options. Yet she won't give up her two young daughters, refuses to join the fallen women of the Bitter Gulch Saloon and can't fathom condemning herself to another loveless marriage. Unfortunately she must decide--soon--because...

Disenchanted with city life after Jaxon Locke, the one man who interests her, moves West to take over a family veterinarian practice, Charlotte Morgan returns to her Wyoming hometown, where Jax resolves to do whatever it takes win her back.