He wanted a partner. God sent him a family. When Clay Birch wins a hurdy-gurdy house in a poker game in the rough mining town of Grand Coeur, Idaho, he sees potential-not ruin. He dreams of transforming it into the finest opera house in the Northwest. But he needs a partner. A wife. One thing he makes clear in his ad for a mail-order bride: no children. That little detail doesn't make it into the catalog.
Luvena Abbott arrives in Idaho with three children in tow-her orphaned nieces and nephew. A lady by birth, educated in the arts, and blessed with a voice like an angel, Luvena sees marriage to a stranger as her best hope to keep a promise to her sister. Clay isn't ready to be a father, and Grand Coeur is no place for a family. But Luvena is determined to change both his mind and his heart. Together, they'll discover that the grandest dreams are built not on what's planned .