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Ruth McCann expects to marry the man her father has chosen and raise a family in her Vermont hometown. Resigned to an arrangement without love, she considers a future shaped by duty rather than the romantic happiness she wants.

After her stepfather loses a poker wager involving her marriage, Nancy Grant escapes by answering a bridal advertisement. She travels to Colorado to marry rancher Jesse Cartwright, hoping a stranger can offer the home and Christmas happiness she has been denied.

Grace Montgomery flees an engagement to an older man and arrives penniless in Colorado. When Jack Sinclair mistakes her for his expected bride, she accepts the identity, building a marriage whose happiness depends on a deception that cannot stay hidden forever.

Unemployed and discouraged by her romantic prospects, Thelma Taylor leaves Vermont to become a mail order bride. She hopes marriage to Colorado widower James McCoy, a father of two, will give her a home and family before Christmas.

Overwhelmed by caring for her parents' household and four brothers, Mandy Roseman seeks escape through marriage to a Colorado ranch hand. Upon arriving, she discovers Matthew Bostwick concealed a secret that could make her new responsibilities as difficult as her old ones.

Widowed Selena Brown leaves Boston with her children to escape relatives threatening to take them away. In Colorado, grieving widower Mike Keating must consider whether opening his heart again can also mean becoming a father to another man's children.

Betrayed by her family, Laura Bailey seeks a practical marriage in Colorado and discovers her prospective husband has five children. Questions about their missing mother draw Laura toward a deputy sheriff and an investigation into the household she planned to join.

Penniless Clara Goodwin answers a bridal agency's offer to marry Colorado rancher Shane Ellis. He needs help raising his brother's children, but a local woman's competing interest complicates an arrangement both strangers initially approach as a business agreement.