A frontier hotel, a runaway heiress, a Pinkerton detective hired to find her - and an Irish miss' life will forever be changed.
The year is 1893. At the age of twenty-six, Bridget Flannigan is sure that life has passed her by, and all she has to look forward to is the drudgery of her position of housekeeper in the home of a wealthy American widow. When her best friend, Olga advises her that she and her fiance are refurbishing an old hotel and intend to re-open it, Bridget is thrilled for them. But her joy is tripled when they offer her a job as their hotel manager. She jumps at the chance to re-build her life.
When a handsome stranger checks into the hotel, Bridget's life is turned upside down. Why would the owners afford him with lodging at no expense for an indeterminable length of time? She finally learns that the boarder, James Edwards is a Pinkerton detective who the owner has hired to find his runaway daughter.
An attraction between Bridget and James soon develops; he introduces her to a world she had only read about in books before. But she is wary of allowing a romance to develop realizing the transient nature of his stay in Kansas.