On her own in America since the age of 15 Carys Rees of Taibach Wales dreams for years of opening a sandwich shop After seven years of service to a family in Pennsylvania she escapes from an obsessive brutish relative of her employers by advertising herself out west as a housekeeper She escapes her violent nemesis only to discover that her new employer in Dakota Territory lied about everything Not only that he also got himself killed Now shes reluctantly taken in by the huge handsome opinionated owner of the liverya widower with a wacky great aunt and young sonwho believes his guest is pregnant and crazy He thinks so poorly of her already Should she tell him shes also being stalked