Readers will laugh and cry along with three unique Old West women who carve a life for themselves out of the rugged mountain region of the Montana territory. A quick marriage is the only choice for Cassie Griffin when she is left widowed with child and vulnerable in a town where women are few. Belle Tanner has already had three bad marriages and feels thankful to be widowed again until she meets an ornery drifter. Abby Lind, a white woman raised by the Flathead Indians, teaches a tenderhearted cattleman what tough really is.