No one knew for sure why Thomas and Sadie Brown named their four daughters after wildflowers, but they were untamed beauties all. Still at home in post-Civil War West Virginia were identical twins Ivy Ann and Mountain Laurel, one content to stay at home, the other eager for adventure. No one knew for sure why Dr. Adam Birchfield left the security of his Massachusetts medical practice to traverse the rural roads of West Virginia. Only Adam knew that he must find his long-estranged brother Nat-even if it meant forsaking love for the untamed Wyoming Territory.

According to Desert Rose Birchfield's first cousin and best friend Nate Birchfield, there was only one man for her, and it didn't matter that he lived thousands of miles from Wyoming Territory. Love—and Nate, of course—would find a way. Carmichael Blake-Jones of Concord, Massachusetts, was ready and willing to take on Nate, the West, and the fiercely independent auburn-haired beauty he'd only glimpsed at in a photograph. But not necessarily in that order.