Celia Thornton would give anything to start over after the blizzard ends her loveless marriage. Jack Wendler needs to leave New York immediately after one too many business deals left his investors penniless. Figuring marriage in remote western Nebraska must be better than the reckoning he's facing in New York, Jack pens a response to a marriage advertisement. When he arrives with a bag of letters—including his own—answering the widows of Last Chance's advertisement for husbands, he's quickly taken with Celia's shy beauty and agrees to marry her on the spot. Even though she comes with a farm he doesn't have the slightest clue how to run. Even though he fears breaking Celia's fragile heart. And even though the business partner he crossed in New York could be on his way to Last Chance at any moment.