Poppy Bennington knows one thing. She has terrible luck. Not only has she lost both of her parents, her two previous suitors broke her heart, and now her fiance has left her at the altar on their wedding day. At the age of twenty-seven, Poppy worries she will remain a spinster and be the talk of the town for years. So she has one solution, which is to run away. Poppy's plan is simple. She will go to a new town and start over.

Finn Weston is Poppy's older brother's best friend and right-hand man at his cattle ranch. When the Bennington family finds out about Poppy's disappearance, Finn joins in the frantic search to find her. Once he finds her, and he will, he plans on doing two things; one, redden her rump and two, marry her.