Cilla W

She knows she is traveling west to marry a different man. He has no idea a different bride is coming. In 1877, Ingrid Söderberg leaves New Jersey behind and journeys to California to marry Alejandro, a wealthy widowed ranchero she has never met. Her original intended groom has died, and the matrimonial agency has reassigned her rather than send her home. Ingrid knows exactly whose rancho she is traveling toward—even if she has no idea what kind of life awaits her there. Alejandro, however, is expecting Maria, the bride he chose and paid the agency to send. He doesn't know Maria has disappeared—or that the agency, desperate to avoid a scandal, has quietly substituted Ingrid in her place. When a fair-haired Swedish-American woman arrives instead of the Mexican Catholic bride he was promised, neither Ingrid nor Alejandro can ignore the deception that brought her there. But with two children longing for warmth in their home and an unexpected connection beginning to grow between two strangers, what started as someone else's mistake may become the future neither of them expected.