According to Desert Rose Birchfield's first cousin and best friend Nate Birchfield, there was only one man for her, and it didn't matter that he lived thousands of miles from Wyoming Territory. Love—and Nate, of course—would find a way. Carmichael Blake-Jones of Concord, Massachusetts, was ready and willing to take on Nate, the West, and the fiercely independent auburn-haired beauty he'd only glimpsed at in a photograph. But not necessarily in that order.