Maddie Hawkins answers an advertisement posted at the General Store for silver mine shares being given away to women. When she arrives in Tombstone in the spring of 1885, she is informed the only way she can collect those shares is to marry one of the miners in town, due to a shortage of women in Arizona Territory. Broke, Maddie is unable to return home, so her only choice is to marry a complete stranger. Calamities unfold as a result of her decision, and she soon regrets putting her signature to the contract. When all the available suitors meet her at the Founder's Day picnic, she is appalled by the choices, and the only man suitable is already promised to another bride. Wanting to marry for love, Maddie fears her dreams of a happy married life will not come to pass if she accepts the conditions of the Bride Dowry.

When Belle Calhoun steps off the stage into Tombstone Arizona in the spring of 1885, she never dreamed she'd arrive just in time to witness a hanging, to get into a tussle with a saloon owner, need to borrow a dress from a saloon girl, or attend a stranger's funeral, all within her first hour in town. When her circumstances suddenly find her without her intended mail order groom, Belle has a hard time staying out of trouble when his brother threatens to raffle her off to the highest bidder. Dalton, who has vowed to protect her, can't do that when he gets himself into some trouble of his own with the new deputy in town.

When two brothers send away for a mail order bride for domestic reasons, they find themselves with more trouble than they bargained for, and each will do anything they can to get out of marrying her! Lizzie Ramsey traveled to Tombstone on her last dollar and a promise. When she arrives to find her dream is nothing more than a domestic nightmare, she sets out to teach the Bodine Brothers a lesson they won't soon forget.