Becca Baker's all grown up! The eighteen year old is in love with her long time boyfriend Noah, close with her little sister Emily, and quite often babysits her younger siblings, given that she's the oldest of eight children. But with the end of her high school education looming, Becca wants only one thing. Most people her age want to go to college, or to find a love if they don't already have one. But Becca wants to get married and start her own family, and it appears that one part of her dream is coming true.

Rose McGregor flees the post-civil war south as a mail-order bride, with no other hope than to have a home of her own, a full stomach, and someone to take care of her. She never expected to find more pain and hardship than she's already suffered as her past catches up with her future. Least of all does she expect to find a love far beyond her wildest dreams in the arms of the stranger she has sworn to honor and obey.