Not even three months into her new marriage, Claire Huntsman finds herself newly widowed. Her beloved husband and best friend, Garret, the very man that drew her from Massachusetts to the Montana Territory from a Mail Order Bride advertisement, has been pronounced missing and dead. Stricken with grief, Claire remains with Garret's family as she wrestles with uncertainty about her future in the forest-enclosed, mountain town of Timberfalls. She is plagued with fatigue and nausea, and becomes the