Caleb Tanner is dead set on adopting his six orphaned nieces and nephews. No way will he allow them to be scattered to the four winds as he and his siblings were so many years ago. But the adoption judge demands he get a wife and that he get her pronto! So Caleb sends off for a mail order bride while he relocates with the children to a place he owns in Texas.
New England heiress Elthia Sinclare is tired of being viewed as helpless. When her engagement falls apart and her father vows to find a husband for her himself, she decides drastic measures are needed. Securing a governess position in a small Texas town, she slips off while her father and brother are away on business.
Elthia and Caleb come face to face at a dusty Texas stage depot with no clue that they've vastly different perceptions of what their working relationship will be. What the two of them ultimately get as they work through their impasse to an outrageous compromise is something much more than either had bargained for - the chance for happiness and the love of a lifetime.
Crystal Reed thought she had met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery.
