At twenty-three, Daughtry Lucas knows she will end up an old
maid unless she can somehow escape her overprotective father. He
refuses to trust her out of his sight, keeping all prospective
suitors at a distance. A newspaper advertisement for a wife seems
to offer Daughtry her only hope of escape. In a marriage by proxy,
she becomes Mrs Nicholas Dawson and flees her father's ranch. Can
this marriage between strangers succeed? Or will the dark strangers
from Nick's past prevent Daughtry from truly being his
forever?