Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek is no place to find a wife. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning and cooking for him, so she places an ad to get him hitched. After Maddy Mooney emigrated from Ireland, she found employment with an eccentric but poor widow. When her mistress decides to answer an ad for a mail-order bride, Maddy is dragged along for the ride to Montana. But en route, Maddy is suddenly abandoned and left to assume the widow's name. With no other recourse in the wilderness, Maddy must convince Kit that she is who she says she is...