Isabella Sophia Wincanton has grown up with a wealthy father who doted on her. But he dies abruptly, and in a single day Bella loses everything: her home, her clothes, her beloved piano, and her fiancé. In desperation, she answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride out West. The stage coach trip is rough, but what happens when she arrives is rougher still. Bella is kidnapped by Zeke Warner, sworn enemy of the man she was supposed to marry as a mail-order bride. Zeke takes her to a dilapidated cabin in the woods. She resists him as he gets steadily more drunk. When she tries to escape, she discovers the price in the Wild West for a woman who disobeys a man. However, Bella does not marry the man to whom she was promised - she marries Zeke instead, and learns that she is taken to the woodshed and punished when she disobeys.

This is a story full of passion and adventure and the spark between two people that blossoms into love.