If she had known what awaited her, she would have stayed home.

Boston, 1874--Widowed and left penniless by her husband, socialite Devon Wainwright is facing another loveless marriage arranged by her mother. When she is notified of an inheritance from a little known aunt, Devon defies her mother and travels to Blue Springs, Colorado, to claim her legacy and a new life. She soon learns that it is one thing to experience the Wild West through the dime novels she reads; it is quite another to experience it in real life. From the moment she steps off the stagecoach, she is tested by culture shock, danger, a jarring secret--and Cort Templeton.