After witnessing her husband's murder, Eleanor Carter is taken into protective custody and far from her home town.
Former Pinkerton agent Glen Sanders has been protector for a number of women, but none quite like this one. Everything must be done by the book, and when he embraces her to keep up the pretense of their fake marriage, she flinches. At least at first.
Living in sin with her protector for an unknown period of time doesn't sit right with Eleanor, so she takes the only option available to her - she marries him. She maintains it's a marriage of convenience only, and insists they annul the marriage when the danger is over.
Can these two make their forced exile work? And will their close proximity force them to face their feelings for each other?