Overwhelmed with responsibilities after the death of her parents, Lucie Croft accepts a mail-order bride contract. When she and her twelve-year-old brother arrive in Chattanooga, Tennessee, life throws another hitch into her dreams when she learns her groom is dead. Homeless and desperate, she accepts help from a handsome hotel owner. Sebastian McCord understands what it takes to own and run a successful hotel, but he has no idea how to raise a child as a single father. When pressured by his own mother to accept the role as Lucie’s groom, he skeptically agrees. He truly needs help with his willful six-year-old girl, but will Lucie accept his offer? Two people overwhelmed with responsibilities. Will they find love and create a family or will life conspire to keep them apart?

Abducted and imprisoned in an army stockade by an obsessed army officer, Sophia Deveraux needs protection if she hopes to make the long, dangerous journey into Indian Territory. When an injured native is captured, her hopes for survival are renewed. With his assistance, she believes she will finally be free of the evil man pursuing her. Choctaw lighthorseman Clay Jefferson is not innocent to the hard life on the frontier. While gathering information to prevent the Cherokees’ removal, he is badly injured and captured. Sophia nurses him back to health, but he must choose between avenging his family’s death or allowing the innocent beauty to awaken his heart.

Megan Floyd needs resolution before she can think about moving on with her life. Needing answers regarding the fate of her brother after her parent’s murder, she joins an eastbound wagon train, but nothing goes as planned when they are attacked by marauding Comanche. Retired U.S. Cavalry officer Bryan MacConnell just wants a family of his own. When his home is destroyed, he decides to start fresh by heading west. With his grandfather in tow, they stumble upon what is left of an Indian attack and the remaining survivors. Will the harsh frontier and wild weather tear them apart or will the hope of love and family keep Bryan and Megan together?