Arriving on the station platform to be cast aside by the man she thought she would marry is not what Bryony Jettison wanted as her welcome to Wellness Creek. What woman would? It is only her training as a teacher that saves her, making her the best candidate for the new mission school. It seems that her future may lay here after all. Until the scarred man arrives in town and turns her world upside down. Drew Walker has quit running. A pathway of devastation lay in his wake and his search for redemption has brought him here to Wellness. The last thing he expects is to find a beautiful woman who steals his heart. With his dark past, can Drew hope that the virtuous Miss Jettison, the town's beloved schoolteacher, can love him back?