Gist, Deeanne

Joe Denton requests a Mercer bride to fulfill his obligations of needing a wife in order to retain ownership of his Seattle timberland in 1860, but when Anna Ivey arrives in Seattle and refuses to marry Joe, he must find a way to woe the beautiful young woman before he loses his land.

Tillie Reese, having agreed to tutor footman Mack Danvers in proper servant etiquette, debates if she should act on her feelings for Mack, even though it would break a rule concerning relationships between servants, or deny her own emotions in order to become Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid, and, when Tillie and Mack get caught up in a cover-up at the orphanage, she finds her job is threatened even further.

Charleston dogwalker Rylee Monroe becomes the target of a thief who has been terrorizing the area where she works, and as reporter Logan Woods investigates the crime spree, he finds himself falling for Rylee, even though his attraction threatens the story he is chasing.