She won't be forced into an arranged marriage... But no matter where she goes, he'll use any means to find her... When Julia Ellis overhears her fiancé's sinister intentions, she decides to do the only thing she can think of to escape and decides to become a mail-order bride in America. She's always dreamed of the land across the sea. Forever impulsive, she sneaks onto the ship of her longtime friend, Philip Reinholt, and disguises herself as a man. But Philip isn't fooled. When he learns of her plans to become a mail-order bride and that his ship is her secret passage to reach her destination, he's beyond upset with her impulsive plan but insists on helping. Little do either one of them realize that her intended is better at tracking her than they bargained for.