Katie Collins knew she wanted to be as different from her mother as possible. Therefore, she made a conscious effort to make herself plain and unattractive. When her employer offers Katie an opportunity to earn one hundred thousand dollars in exchange for finding his daughter, Wilhemina, a husband, Katie leaps at the chance.  As she struggles to aid Wilhemina in her search, Katie blooms from plain to gorgeous. Katie does not realize, however, that she will be expected to team together with attractive, arrogant Michael Wingate in a wild goose chase when Wilhemina dashes off to Texas in search of a cowboy to love.

Michael recognizes immediately that there is more to Katie than meets the eye, and soon the couple is struggling to deny their attraction for each other as they travel from Philadelphia to tiny towns across Texas.  

Personalities clash as Katie and Michael attempt to come to terms with issues from their pasts, keeping the reader engaged and interested in the final outcome of the novel.  Secondary characters Wilhemina and Doug add depth to the story, sometimes causing the reader to be more interested in their romance, rather than Katie and Michael’s.