Adelaide Kemp-Houghton witnessed the murder of her husband one dark night, and in order to save herself, she abandons everything she's ever known. Her refuge is found in Oklahoma Territory. There, she begins a new life under an assumed name: Della Brown.

Lo Bonham's world turned upside down the day his sister left her young daughter. Bringing up his niece isn't a challenge until she turns into a rebellious teenager. His house is in discord and if he doesn't find a solution, he may lose his mind. When he meets Della, the problem seems likely to resolve in a matter of weeks as his niece takes to her private, mousy companion. Lo can't help being drawn to Della either, even if she is hiding a deep secret.

Della shouldn't let Lo and his niece make her feel so at home, but she's fast falling for the man known as the local Lothario. When Della's past is exposed, the two men trying to track her down arrive in town. One wants to kill her, one wants her for personal gain. Even with Lo backing her, will Della ever be safe again?
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Peter Bonham left Swells, Oklahoma Territory with a broken heart. He's spent years wandering the West, but when his dying cousin calls him home with a last request, Peter can't refuse. It'll mean giving up the freedom he's found in exchange for owning the horses he's long loved and the chance to reconnect with his family.

Peter's ex-fiancée, Lillian, is coming back to Swells too. With the promise of a fresh start, she thinks she can put the circumstances that ruined her previous engagement behind her. Although a little surprised that her ex-fiancé's cousin would ask her for a favor, Lillian eagerly accepts responsibility of the house and horses he offers. But when Lillian and Peter come face-to-face, embers are rekindled.

The undeniable attraction makes things tense as Lillian struggles to begin her new life. She stubbornly ignores her old feelings for Peter, determined to forge ahead with the man who is all wrong for her. To make her happy, Peter is willing to give her up—and give up his own renewed chance at happiness—but a little help from his niece might nudge Lillian and Peter back onto the road to the future they originally envisioned.

Ben Darling is infuriating, arrogant, and though he may look like every woman's dream, he's no better than a common thief for stealing Paralee Blake's childhood home. She stopped trusting Ben the moment he broke her heart, and nothing is going to sway her opinion of him. Not her father's insistence that that Ben is the man she needs, not his mother's matchmaking attempts, and certainly not the way his kisses make her heart pound.

​Paralee is so stubborn and short-sighted, she can't see Ben only wants one thing since his return—her happiness. He never intended to hurt her when he left on a personal mission to right a wrong. The trouble is, there's no walking back into Paralee's life and picking up where they left off. From the moment he crosses paths with her again, it's clear it's going to take special effort to reclaim her heart.

After a tragic accident leaves Loyal Redfearn alone and pregnant, she writes to her deceased fiancé's ne'er-do- well brother, August Baxter in hopes that he'll be the salvation she needs to save her beloved home. What she doesn't expect from him is a proposal so soon on the heels of his brother's death. Although they grew up together, she never thought of August as the man she would marry, even if it means saving face with her family and friends.

Although returning to the township where August spent his troubled youth means facing the past, he sees an opportunity to redeem himself in the eyes of the woman he's loved since boyhood. They agree the marriage is in name-only, but August hopes to earn Loyal's trust and waits for the day she'll see his hard work as proof that she didn't marry the wrong brother after all.

When Ethan Caldwell discovers a lost train ticket to Oklahoma Territory, he sees a chance to escape disease-ridden Memphis. On his journey, he encounters a conman plotting to swindle a widow through a proxy marriage. Caldwell is appalled but feels powerless to intervene—until a catastrophic train wreck changes everything.

Abigail Lorance, still grieving her late husband, is ready to remarry despite her in-laws’ objections. After the derailment, everyone mistakes Ethan for Abigail's new husband. As he helps on her farm, she begins to fall for him, but the truth of his identity threatens to unravel their budding romance. When her in-laws hire an investigator, Abigail's trust is shattered. Can she ever forgive him after learning the truth?