Billie the Bluebird has had enough. For six years she's worked as Madam of The Gilded Cage, an upscale brothel in New Orleans, waiting for her lover--the club's owner--to marry her. When instead he breaks her heart, she answers a mail-order bride advertisement from a little town called Dancer in the wild Dakota territory, as far away from New Orleans as possible. Claiming to be a widow named Willa, she arrives just before Christmas and marries the...