Orphaned at a young age, Maura Reed cooks, cleans, and runs the only hotel in Springville, Montana, for her rowdy stepbrothers. One night when a violent blizzard traps Maura's stepbrothers at a high-stakes poker game in another town, a rugged, dangerously handsome stranger, gunslinger Quinn Lassiter, enters the deserted hotel. Loneliness and a little too much whiskey prod him to ask her to spend the night with him, and Maura, feeling lonely herself, agrees. Quinn leaves town the next day, but when Maura discovers some months later that she is pregnant with his child, she tracks him down. He agrees to marry her -- not because he loves her, but out of a sense of duty. As Maura makes a real home for them at Quinn's ranch in Hope, Wyoming, Quinn begins to fall in love with her, but not before he almost loses her to her vengeful stepbrothers, who believe she stole their money when she left home.
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Orphaned at a young age, Maura Reed cooks, cleans, and runs the only hotel in Springville, Montana, for her rowdy stepbrothers. One night when a violent blizzard traps Maura's stepbrothers at a high-stakes poker game in another town, a rugged, dangerously handsome stranger, gunslinger Quinn Lassiter, enters the deserted hotel. Loneliness and a little too much whiskey prod him to ask her to spend the night with him, and Maura, feeling lonely herself, agrees. Quinn leaves town the next day, but when Maura discovers some months later that she is pregnant with his child, she tracks him down. He agrees to marry her -- not because he loves her, but out of a sense of duty. As Maura makes a real home for them at Quinn's ranch in Hope, Wyoming, Quinn begins to fall in love with her, but not before he almost loses her to her vengeful stepbrothers, who believe she stole their money when she left home.