Jennifer Mason loves medicine. She lives on the family farm with her beloved younger brother, feeds her thirst for medical knowledge through any books she can find, and spends her time learning from the doctor in town and the nearby Shawnee medicine man. Then tragedy strikes, and Jennifer’s life is changed forever. Unable to save her brother’s life after a horrifying accident, Jennifer wonders whether her search for knowledge was a waste. Unsure of herself and driven by loneliness and despair, she takes the first option she finds for a new start: becoming a Mail Order Bride for a rancher in Bluff’s Pike, Colorado. Her new husband is David Jameson, and Jennifer knows she’s been lucky. He’s kind, intelligent, hard-working – and handsome. He even agrees that she can be his wife in name only until she recovers from her grief. When tragedy strikes again, Jennifer is forced to search for help wherever it can be found. She realizes her feelings have changed more rapidly than she had ever imagined. Will her doctoring knowledge help her this time? Or will she lose her husband just as she is beginning to love him?