Although postmaster Cullen Reagan is a strict "go by the rules" man, he secretly wrote letters to a mail-order bride for an area rancher, because the man couldn't read or write.
Rose Leander, one of the Flying Leanders, a famous circus tightrope act, is injured in a circus train accident. Wanting to start over in a quiet frontier town, Rose answers a mail-order bride advertisement.
Cullen is caught between a rock and hard spot when the rancher abandons his bridebecause Rose is handicappedand Cullen's adoptive pastoral parents who insist he helps the woman he deceivedbecause Cullen wrote the letters.
Will the couple grow to love each other after they are thrown together, by circumstances neither of them planned for?