Caleb Whitaker returns to Copper Bend, Wyoming, unwilling to face Jonah, the friend whose betrayal once cost him everything.
Dying and desperate, Jonah asks him to take over a struggling ranch and raise two young children, and a lost game of horseshoes leaves Caleb’s pride no honorable way to refuse.
The work no longer comes naturally, the grieving children want him gone, and he starts to believe a wife might bring the household some order.
After a humiliating betrayal by the man she thought would share her future, romantic Amy Bennet answers a mail-order bride advertisement and travels to Wyoming for a practical husband and a peaceful home.
She steps off the train to a gruff, guarded husband and two heartbroken children no one mentioned, while a cold-blooded enemy schemes to seize the ranch.
Caught between old wounds and a bargain neither of them chose, Caleb and Amy face a love that may prove as risky as the bet that bound them together.
