Having spent the last three years taking care of her ailing father, twenty-two-year-old Mary Johnson finds herself alone and without a home after his death.Discovering that her father had a serious gambling debt, Mary must move out of the only home she had ever known, as the house and properties are to be sold as stated in her father's will. With nowhere to go, Mary sees an advertisement for Mail Order Brides and after corresponding with a gentleman finds herself on her way to marry Preston Wilson, a rancher in Montana who is looking for a wife to help raise his dead sister's baby.When Mary arrives, she finds life with Preston is not all she imagined it would be especially when her new husband prefers to spend time with a woman Mary knows as the Widow. Feeling frustrated and torn, it takes a tragedy for Mary to find out the truth about the Widow and the kind of man she married.Can Mary find the life she yearned and learn to love her husband? Will she find the happiness she always wanted?