Life couldn’t end up being better for Abigail Gilbert-but it’s been a long time coming. Having resided with a family group who hated her, love is finally within reach. Abby sets off on a journey across Britain to marry one of the most renowned gentleman bachelors in the land-until highwaymen upset her programs and threaten her lifestyle. Horse patrol captain Samuel Thatcher will come just in time to save Abby. But to him, she’s just another sufferer in a job he’s arrive to despise. Tired of the dark side of humanity, he intends to buy land and retire. Abby pleads with him to escort her on the rest of her journey. He refuses until she presents him the thing he desperately needs to achieve his goal: cash. Delivering her securely will acquire him plenty of to settle right into a silent life. So begins an impossible trek for the cynical lawman and the correct woman. Each will be indelibly transformed by enough time they reach her betrothed, if indeed they don’t kill one another first-or fall in like.