No bachelor could be prepared for what happens to the Givens brothers one stormy night in 1876. Finding a pregnant woman on their road, they take her in. Before they can learn anything about her, she gives birth to triplets and disappears. Luckily, the doctor supplies a much-needed wet-nurse—Cynara, a recent widow who lost her baby. Her sad eyes and gentle acceptance awaken something in Barclay's staid soul. But she's not ready for a new man in her life. She'll stay at the ranch and tend the babies, but that's all. Meanwhile, where is the babies' real mother? Who and where is the father? And what will become of these helpless infants?

Jared Givens went to town to invite his best gal on a picnic. Instead, he's summoned to the hotel where a young lady he'd never seen before awaits him. A young woman going by the name Mrs. Jared Givens. Ruth Healy Kimbrough is on the run from a man who wants her silenced forever. She chose the Givens ranch as her refuge because her sister is married to Jared's brother, Barclay. Will the Givens family help Healy? Can they hide her from Skelly Bernard and keep her alive? Will Jared get past having to pretend he's married to a stranger? Or will his marriage turn into a true, loving union?