Josephine Danforth arrives at Miss Sally Pinkerton's Ladies Boarding House and Matchmaking Service in St. Louis with the hope of finding a job out west. When she learns that governesses aren't much in demand on the plains, the eponymous Miss Pinkerton suggests another option: marriage. Reassured by a potential suitor's letters, Josephine reluctantly accepts and heads west. Completely out of her element, Josephine struggles to find her place as the wife of Montana rancher Eb Higginbotham and mother to his orphaned nephew, Clem. With Eb's seeming indifference, Josephine worries she may have...

Miss Sally J. Pinkerton runs the most reputable ladies boarding house in St. Louis. Situated on the edge of the frontier, it attracts all sorts who are making their way West for a better life. But when her beloved boarder Bess Stapleton dies, Miss Pinkerton promises to find someone to help the girl's brother, James-a widower with two young children- and in the process, she finds a new calling: helping lonely frontiersmen find brides. And thus Miss Sally Pinkerton's Ladies Boarding House and Matchmaking Service is born. An Accidental Match is the prologue to the Pinkerton Brides series.