It's hard to love a man with a vendetta.

Harriet Ackerman is leaving home for the first time since her husband's death...

Her family can't support her any longer. Not with a baby to feed.

She needs a man who will care for her and her child.

Becoming a mail order bride seemed like the easiest solution.

She never thought she'd get a judge with a vendetta.

Her sister is married to an outlaw. Harriet's husband wants to see him hanged.

Judge Theodore Foster is a man obsessed.

His obsession has led him to alienate everyone around him, including his children.

Until he can avenge his wife's death, Harriet will be nothing more than a mail order bride.

But will vengeance ever be enough?

Harriet must find a way to help the judge heal and save her new family.

But Judge Foster doesn't want to be healed.

He wants revenge.

Will Harriet ever hear the words she longs to hear... I love you.

Or is she forever condemned to live in the shadow of a dead woman?