Finding a husband after the American Civil War isn t easy. When twenty-two-year-old Bostonian Clara Stapleton discovers the address of a likely bachelor in the wilds of the Alaskan bush, she throws caution to the wind and sends him a letter. Soon she s on the adventure of her life, leaving the comfort and stability of a well-to-do family for a man she s never met and a life of uncertainty. Callie Glass isn t happy with her brother Jasper s proposal to a mail-order bride, though she knows it s not her call. And when a tragic accident takes Jasper Glass s life, Callie doesn t hesitate to call off the wedding in a letter to Clara. Callie is soon surprised to find a strange woman settling into her cabin, a stranger who had never received news of Jasper s demise. While Callie insists that the other woman should return home, Clara digs in her heels. If Callie can live without a man in this isolated land, why can t she? Both headstrong women struggle in the ashes of their dashed hopes and dreams, slowly coming together to forge an alliance for which neither is prepared.

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