Cora Reed has always had one great love-music. After nearly a decade performing in music halls, her world shatters when she's abruptly dismissed from her position. With her future uncertain, Cora resolves to find a new purpose-and maybe a new kind of love. She answers an advertisement for a mail-order bride and heads west to the Idaho Territories, ready to begin again. Her intended, Leroy Harrison, is respectable, handsome, and the manager of Pinecrest's only bank. But he makes one thing clear: his wife must leave music-and public performance-behind. Determined to honor her commitment, Cora tries to suppress her longing for the piano. But when she meets Will Thompson, a kind-hearted man who encourages her dreams instead of silencing them, her heart begins to waver. Torn between duty and desire, stability and passion, Cora must choose: will she settle for a life that denies who she is-or risk everything for the music of her heart?