Susana Prescott welcomes the chance to relocate with her family to the Arizona Territory. She sees moving from Saint Louis to the up-and-coming town of Windemere as a fresh beginning for herself, her widowed father, and her younger brothers, Seth and Will.

Eager to start her own business as a trained baker, she hopes to open a bakery. What she doesn't anticipate is the number of single men in Windemere. She's never considered herself pretty, especially compared to her younger, married, sister. However, she can barely make it down the street without being accosted by a half-dozen of the local millworkers.

Jackson (Jake) Harkness is the owner of Snake River Sawmill. Eager to make a go of this new endeavor, he's constantly looking for ways to improve the efficiency of his business, while still corralling his young, and impressionable, workers. It doesn't help that they all seem to be smitten with the town's newest arrival.

He decides to see for himself what all the fuss is about and ventures into Sis's Fine Baked Goods with the intention of asking the woman in question to stop flirting with his men. All it takes is one look, and one taste of her famous sweet potato pie, for Jake to see exactly what's got the town's single men all riled up.

Eliza Carson left the safety of her small-town home for New York City with plans to establish herself as a serious performer. Seven years later, her maternal grandmother's illness pulls her back to Big Bend, Colorado as an entirely different woman than she was when she left.

Cole Stewart also grew up in Big Bend and left at eighteen to join the army. After moving around the country as a U.S. Marshal in Denver, Cole accepts a transfer to Big Bend and welcomes the chance to return to the town of his youth.

The town's abuzz with the news that Eliza—now a famous costume designer for both silent films and the stage—is coming home. How will this granddaughter of the town's eccentric matriarch fit in now that she's been to the big city?

More importantly, how will Cole keep the peace when everyone wants their chance to hob nob with a bona fide celebrity? Including himself.

Welcome to Garden Belles Mail-Order Brides. Established in 1850, during the height of the westward wagon train exodus, and the various land runs. Men, desperate for a partner, a wife, turned to Saint Louis sisters Dahlia and Zinnia Williams (aka the Garden Belles) for assistance.

The sisters, both spinsters, are especially proud of three things in the lives: their garden, filled with every type of imaginable flower; their penchant for finding perfect wives for most suitable husbands; and more importantly, the orphaned niece they raised from a baby.

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About Daisy…

After completing her final year of college at Vassar, Daisy Chambers left for England to spend two years traveling around Europe with her maternal grandmother and interning at one of London's most prestigious libraries.

She's home now, and eager to begin her chosen career as a librarian. What Daisy doesn't realize is her well-planned life is about to reach a fork in the road that no one, least of all her, saw coming.

Luke Addison is raising his five-year-old son alone after his wife left him when the boy was barely one. As the only trained veterinarian in Carriage Creek, California, he relies on his housekeeper to keep things running in his absence.

Determined to remarry and provide his son with a mother, and himself with a wife, Luke applies to Garden Belles Mail-Order Brides for a match. Unfortunately, despite months of exchanging letters, his first match changes her mind at the last minute in favor of her career. The experience has soured him on the idea of a new relationship, and when the matching service offers him a replacement bride, he accepts under the condition that it's a marriage in name only, and that the woman's sole focus be his son.

Can his substitute bride change his mind? More importantly, can he change hers?

Will a case of mistaken identity leave Adela McIntyre alone in an unfamiliar town with no way to fend for herself?

When her long-time employer decides to move back to England, twenty-six-year-old lady's companion, Adela McIntyre, finds herself out of a job. She's offered the opportunity to marry a well-to-do banker who works for her employer's family holdings in the small town of Comstock, Colorado. Given her marital prospects at her advanced age are few and far between, Adela eagerly accepts.

After all, who wouldn't want to embark on a westward adventure, and a new marriage, at the same time?

Her intended groom believes he's agreed to marry the heiress granddaughter of his bank's founder and, upon meeting Adela, he rejects her for his own nefarious reasons. Alone in a strange town, Adela is desperate for employment and a place to live.

Keenan (Key) Bristol is the town's new marshal. This is his fifth assignment in the past four years and, as promised by his bosses, his last transfer. Maybe now, he can put down roots and eventually settle in with a wife and a family. Although the town is small, there are a few young, single women of faith who won't mind living on a lawman's salary.

The arrival of the posh woman from Boston has the town in a stir, and Key's thoughts going where they shouldn't. Why, when all he wants is a simple life, is he attracted to the one woman he can surely never win?