In the Kansas Flint Hills, in the year eighteen-sixty-nine, women have little hope of finding respectable work outside the home. But, Cassandra Lindsey has a choice. She can either become a working girl in Miss Opal's Saloon or submit to being auctioned off in the first bride auction in Baxter Springs, Kansas. Fearful of men, she chooses to be the bride, reasoning that she could save herself and her little sister, Missy if she had a home. Despite Cassandra's vow to marry for love, she reluctantly agrees to be the bride. Duke Burton has spent the last month looking for a suitable wife. He's a...