Cole Morgan was about to embark with another wagon train, headed for Oregon, where land grants were being dispersed. Emily Carrington was running away from home. Even though she was twenty-six years old, this was the first time she'd been on her own. When she heard about all the wagon trains going west from Independence Missouri, she knew that was her ticket to her new freedom.There was only one problem. Cole Morgan didn't allow unmarried women on his train. But meeting Emily for the first time, she made a huge impression on him. So he found a way to take her and still not break his own rules. He would marry her himself, and in return she could cook for his men along the trail to Oregon.Emily agreed, since she was desperate to escape her controlling Uncle and Robert, the man she had been engaged to for six years.She had no idea of the adventures she would face both good and bad along the way. And what would happen once she was in Oregon to her husband?