'Teenage Junebug McBride has had enough of cooking and cleaning for her ungrateful older brothers in the isolated Buck’s Creek, Montana. So, when she is asked to write an advertisement looking for a wife for one of the local men, she secretly decides to do the same for her know-it-all brother Kit. Junebug knows a wife for Kit will get him off her back and means someone else can cook and clean for them. What could possibly go wrong?' (Introduction)
Epigraph: '“Well, spit. How was Junebug to know flour was flammable?”'