Catherine Reardon enlists the help of Miss Pinkerton to help find her a better life and travels west to meet the man who will become her husband. Questions about her husband's identity and encounters with the fiendish robber baron Black Jack Maynard throw her future into doubt. Can Catherine overcome the odds, defeat the bad guys and live happily ever after?

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.