After years of loneliness, Clara Richmond, a young widow living in a rugged frontier town, does something unthinkable…she replies to an ad for a mail-order husband. Not for love. Not for passion. Simply for companionship, protection, and a helping hand around the homestead. But when Magnus Forte arrives, he is the quiet, mild-mannered man she expected and more… Broad-shouldered, lean figure, sharp-eyed, and bringing a companion of his own… Magnus turns her orderly life upside down. With every stolen glance and lingering touch, Clara’s walls begin to crumble…and she starts to wonder if her heart might still remember how to love. Yet Jackson didn’t come only to answer her ad… he needs Clara just as much as she needs him, probably even more. Will she be enough for him, and will he be the man she has been longing for? Will they fight for the second chance neither of them ever thought they’d deserve?