A pair of bakers took Sarah in as an orphan in San Francisco. When they died, their nephew told her to take her things; he was selling the rest. He wanted to hire her to continue making bakery goods, but she knew this was a bad idea.

Noah Bailey found six orphaned boys standing at the town's train stop. When Holden, the eldest, asked for his help, Noah attacked the men who were taking the boys to work in coal mines, driving them away. Then, he took the boys home with him. A couple of months later, Noah realized he needed help. It needed to be a woman because the boys cried at night and he felt powerless to help.

Thus, Noah reluctantly wrote a letter for a mail-order bride. Noah never planned to marry and said he wanted a marriage of convenience -- someone to cook and care for the boys. He said he was in a hurry and the marriage service sent eighteen-year-old Sarah before they could correspond.

They married in Galveston when Sarah's ship arrived. However, the boys were hatching a plan to get rid of Sarah because they figured she would send them on their way. The Baileys would not need the six boys when they had their own children.

This is a pleasant, engaging story about how these eight people became a family.

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