
In 1856, Josette LeBlanc is in need of a husband. According to her father’s will, if she’s not married in three weeks, she will lose her inheritance to her half-brother and stepmother. Worse, they will run her father’s business into the ground. But who will marry the twenty-six-year-old daughter of a French fur trader and his Indian wife? In answer to a newspaper advertisement, claiming there are one hundred eligible bachelors for every single woman in Little Falls, Minnesota Territory, Josie travels from St. Louis, Missouri to Minnesota to find out...