Darrell learns that love can sneak up on a person but so can danger! If Darrell Dean wants to inherit half of the Silver Queen mine, he needs to marry. Though he doesn't like the girl, he agrees to marry the local saloon owner's daughter. He doesn't expect a woman to interrupt the wedding who claims to be his wife. If Willa VanDurring wants to escape the danger stalking her, she needs a new name and home far away from the threat. At her guardian's urging, she agrees to marry Darrell Dean by proxy and then immediately leaves to join him in Colorado. She's shocked to find him marrying another woman. Can a man who didn't agree to marry a proxy bride and a woman pursued by a murderer make a life together? What happens when the danger finds her? In a town with no law, how will she survive?