Kate Mackenzie finds her life going from bad to worse with a long-time boyfriend who refuses to commit, a mother in love with a younger man, and a desperate housing situation, until she meets attorney Mitch Hertzog.

Jamie Swift's job running the local newspaper in Beaumont is complicated by the arrival of her silent partner, Maximillian Holt, who is in town supporting his brother-in-law, former wrestler Frankie Fontana, in his campaign for mayor.

"1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn...