She left behind silk gloves and ballroom dreams for a land of dust, duty... and a husband she barely knew. When Josephine Walker answers a matrimonial advertisement and travels from Pennsylvania to the rugged Idaho Territory, she hopes to prove she’s more than a pampered socialite. Determined to make a new life as the wife of rancher Larry Cole, she soon learns that prairie life is far harder—and lonelier—than she ever imagined. Larry wanted a wife who could handle the hardships of ranch living, not a dainty stranger who can’t cook, clean, or keep up with the chores. But when he sees the blisters on Josephine’s hands and the pain she hides behind her quiet pride, something shifts. Maybe strength doesn’t always look the way he expected. As the autumn skies stretch wide above them and winter looms near, two strangers must learn what it truly means to build a home—and a marriage—beneath the cotton-colored clouds of the frontier. A tender tale of grit, grace, and a love that grows in the unlikeliest soil.