When trouble meets the law... Sheriff Ransom Callahan needs a wife, one who is upstanding and will serve beside him as an example to their small town and as a mother to his twelve-year-old daughter. Happy-go-lucky Joy Kendrick wants adventure—and has a tendency to find herself in situations she ought to have avoided. They never should have been matched together. But thanks to the matchmaker's mischievous cat, Ransom finds himself with more trouble on his hands than he ever could have imagined while Joy determines to make the straight-laced Ransom step outside his carefully placed lines for once. Can this mismatched pair see past their differences to make their marriage work? Or will the growing love they have for each other fall apart when Joy's escapades place her in danger?