Hoping to escape the shame of her street-urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plots a desperate scheme - to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the dangerous frontier territory of Minnesota. He's expecting a twenty-five-year old capable housekeeper. He gets a skinny seventeen year old, with hair the colour of whisky and no domestic abilities whatsoever. And she's brought her little brother along.
But Karl is a kind and gentle man, who forgives Anna and her deceptions. Slowly they come to trust each other and, gradually, trust becomes a tender passion. Yet Anna knows there is one secret she must keep at all costs - just how she earned the money to bring her brother from Boston to Minnesota . . .
