She vows to prove indispensable ... but will she succeed too well?

To survive on his newly cleared land outside Jamestown, Thomas Deed needs a field hand, not a wet-nurse. But instead of doing the rational thing, he fulfils a deathbed promise to his sister, borrowing against his land to acquire a woman to care for the babe. Mary Price surprises him, adapting to her harsh surroundings and quickly becoming a godsend.

Separated on arrival in Jamestown from her sister, Mary Price knows her only hope of reunion is to stay where her sister can find her. But Deed claims that he will be rid of her long before the term of her service ends. Mary vows to work so hard that he will never give her up and succeeds in ways she never imagined. As the pair struggle against the wilderness and their growing desires, when the time comes, will he give her up or find a way to keep her forever?

Colonial Virginia, 1644.