Viola Bunting is forced to leave Virginia and the life she's always known as a mail order bride to marry a rancher in Colter Valley, Montana.  Unfortunately her intended is not quite prepared to follow through with the marriage.

By the time Joshua McKade finds out a mail order bride is coming to marry him, it's too late to put a stop to it.  He decides to come to an agreement with his new bride.  They will live together, he will provide a home in exchange for cooking and cleaning.  What he doesn't expect is for his wife to be so enticingly beautiful.