Zeke Calhoun had a farm to run, cattle to protect, and a home to build out in the near-wilderness that was Rushville.

He didn’t have time to search among the scarce pickings of the nearby outpost or the fledgling town his family was helping to build for a wife.

Seraphina Montague was descended from Shaman and wise women, and afraid of no one, and nothing. When Seraphina’s grandmother answers an ad in the Matrimonial Times without telling Sera, she hopes to send her granddaughter away from trouble.

But, trouble follows in Nathaniel Gunn, the man that Sera’s parent betrothed her to as a child. When he comes to claim her and she’s gone, he follows with the intention of taking her back, no matter what the cost.

But, what cost can be counted against the loyalty and courage of true love?