When Cassie Dixon's mother dies in the brothel where she worked and where Cassie was raised, the owner gives Cassie a choice—take her mother's place or to get out. Cassie chooses to leave, and after meeting with a friend, she decides to become a mail-order bride to a rancher in Texas, and a mother to his eleven-year-old daughter, Lindy.
However, when Cassie arrives in Texas, she learns that her groom is dead. Cassie has no choice but to write to her friend and hope she would send enough money for Cassie to get home.
When Beckett Ford (his friends call him Beck), invites her to stay at the ranch in the meantime, she hesitates, but finally agrees. Maybe Cassie can help Lindy to deal with her father's death, just as she's dealing with her own loss.
As time goes by, Cassie finds herself falling in love with Beck, Lindy and Sapphire Springs. And when a bank draft arrives, she has a decision to make. Should she tell Beck the money has arrived and stay until he tires of her, or go now and make a clean break?
