When Eleanor Hayes answers Samuel Blackwood's advertisement for a mail-order bride, she's desperate for escape from Boston society's judgment after her first husband's financial scandal. A practical arrangement with a Colorado widower seems the perfect solution. He needs a mother for his ten-year-old daughter, Jenny, and she needs a fresh start far from her past.
But Silver Creek holds challenges Eleanor never anticipated. Samuel's heart remains buried with his beloved first wife, Catherine, whose memory permeates every corner of their home. His daughter Jenny views Eleanor as an unwelcome intruder, determined to preserve her mother's place through hostility and sabotage.
As Eleanor struggles to establish herself in a household suspended in grief, she finds herself living in Catherine's shadow, until a near-tragedy forces both Samuel and Jenny to see her for who she truly is.
