"After her long-awaited wedding day ends in disaster, Linda Forrest wonders whether she will ever be happy again. Seeing Blake Barrett's ad for a mail order bride gives her hope that, with God's help, she may still find a time to love." - Back cover.

Romance and revenge, hot tempers, and cold feet frame a gripping story set in rural Elkton, Idaho, in the 1860s. Young Jordan Shaw angers easily and lives wildly, experiencing prison and kidnapping before his family attempts to tame him with marriage. To avoid their choice, he seeks a mail order bride, pretty Diana Morrow, who suffers the abuse of a violent father before escaping her tumultuous family home. When Diana arrives in Elkton and finds Jordan...

Hoping to avenge her father's death in a Confederate prison camp, Jenny Linden answers a mail-order-bride ad by a former prison guard named Dan Tyler.