When Betsy Franklin gets off the mail coach in the Nebraska Territory town of Brimstone, she doesn’t know what to expect from the man she corresponded with and hopes to marry. When she finds Jed Wilcox waiting for her in front of the Brimstone Hotel, it’s love at first sight. They decide to go straight to the church and get married before going home to his house. Little do they know disaster is about to strike that will change their lives forever and throw their happy future into jeopardy.This quaint little frontier town hides more secrets than Betsy can handle, and only her fledgling love for Jed saves her from destruction. A greedy tycoon, a corrupt sheriff, and a spoiled dandy control the town with an iron fist. They kill anyone who steps out of line, and they set their sights on Jed and Betsy. These powerful forces converge to tear them apart. Betsy must call on resources within herself she never knew she had to overcome overwhelming odds, but hidden friends come out of the woodwork to help her avert disaster. Can she and Jed survive the next few days, or will all their hopes come crashing down around their ears?

Allison Crowley had only known the streets of her hometown in New York since her birth. She lost her parents young and trained in the medical field to be a nurse. In 1912, she is working in a hospital and is close to her colleagues, Cynthia and Jennifer. But she feels an itch to start a new life elsewhere, which leads her to answer an ad from a wealthy rancher in Texas looking for a bride.Bill Andrews is mostly content with his life. At least that’s what he tells himself on a daily basis. It is only at the insistence of his mother that he look for a new wife to be a mother to his seven-year-old son, Casper. But when he receives the first letters from Allison, something inside him says it’s time to let go of his deceased wife, Cassandra, and see if love could really be on the horizon for him.Allison leaves behind her colleagues and her favorite patient, Clara, for the desert sands of Texas. She is enthralled with the place the moment she arrives. But she is surprised to discover that Casper is a sickly child, who is taken care of daily by a nanny/nurse named Mary.Immediately upon her arrival, Allison knows there is something off with Mary. She is the only person she meets who does not have a friendly, positive demeanor. Mary is suspicious and solemn, unless she is speaking to Bill. When she is around her employer, she acts more like a wife and mother. Allison does not like to feel jealous, nor does she want to be afraid that she could lose the man she’d fallen for so quickly to a woman who already had her sights set on him.Allison begins to question whether she was brought to Texas to be a wife or a nurse for the child. She loves her profession but did not want it to mix into her personal life. She doesn’t know whether to confront Bill about it or not. He doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s going on with the women around him. If he does, he surely doesn’t understand it or want to get involved.

Cecilia Cope, also known as Cici, gets more than she bargained for when she arrives in the frontier town of Brimstone. The man she hoped to marry is nowhere in sight. Even worse, he doesn’t even know she’s coming. Her last letter telling Kelvin Kirk she was on her way must have gotten lost in the mail, and now Cici has nowhere to turn.Within minutes of getting off the coach, the catastrophic forces threatening to tear the town apart converge on Cici. She finds herself caught in a tug-of-war between good and evil, but the powers trying to destroy her will find they got more than they bargained for when they messed with Cici. She might be small, but she’s not about to lie down and let anybody walk all over her. Her instincts and her inner strength can match anything life throws at her, and right now, she’ll need them all just to get through the next few days.When the pressure building under the town finally blows, Cici must decide whose side she’s really on, because this fight will take everything she’s got. Will she find love and happiness on the frontier, or will disaster leave her bereft and penniless, and possibly dead?

Lily Dawson is a rich lady with her enough money to travel in a private coach to the town of Brimstone. She married a wealthy banker in New York and inherited his property when he died. Now she’s on her way to meet Doctor Noah Kearney in the hopes of building a new life as a mail order bride.Things take a turn for the worse when her private coach drops her off at a magnificent estate instead of the bedraggled Brimstone Hotel. The driver dumps her luggage on the front lawn and drives away, leaving Lily abandoned. Before she can decide what to do, a dapper gentleman comes out and invites her to stay until she can sort out the misunderstanding. He introduces himself as Merrill Fox.Though he puts her at ease with his genteel manner, he quickly starts to show his true colors. He tries to convince her to marry him instead of the doctor, and when she refuses, he tries to force her. Can she ever escape from the gilded cage in which she finds herself trapped? Is this the end of her dream of a new life?