Millie Porter was a smart girl, a good girl, and a grown one. In fact, she was no longer a girl, but a woman of marriageable age. So why was she surprised when her parents made a promise to another prominent family that she’d wed their son? Maybe it was the fact they failed to tell her! Or worse, that she was nothing more than part of a business deal! Well, she’d just see about that! Justin Weaver was far from his family and farm outside of Nowhere, a little speck of a town in the Washington territory. He had a wandering spirit and left in search of adventure and found it as a cowpuncher on the Dalton Ranch. One of the biggest spreads he’d ever seen. But the ranch was more than just big, it was also a safe house for mail-order brides fleeing the threat of white slavers. Protecting them was part of his job, but when he had to keep Millie Porter safe, he didn’t think he’d have to protect his heart. Too bad he had to protect her for someone else … but then, he also had to protect her from so much more …