Broday (Once Upon a Mail Order Bride) squanders a fun premise on a scattered plot in this disappointing series launch. In 1899, Texas, Grace Legend, a fierce advocate for the temperance movement, locks horns with Deacon Brannock while trying to close down his saloon. Deacon, an ex-cowboy, dreams of selling enough liquor to buy land and refuses to be shut down, but his conflict with Grace softens into romance when the two discover a shared interest in helping the vulnerable of Fort Worth. Meanwhile, supposedly committed Grace needs only a lecture from her father to drop her temperance demonstrations, choosing instead to write -scathing articles-- for the local paper. When the plot refocuses on orphans going missing from the city streets, overwrought descriptions of suffering urchins (-Izzy glanced down at his feet where a big toe protruded from his shoe. -Ain-t got no ma. No pa either---) engender more eye rolls than pity. Grace and Deacon-s quest to help these children lacks urgency, sidetracked by Deacon-s attempts to break a mustang, Grace-s rescue of a prostitute, multiple paternity twists, several revelations of murder, and comic scenes involving a trained monkey. Like its do-gooder heroine, this ultimately comes across as well-intentioned but confused. Agent: Gail Fortune, the Talbot Fortune Agency. (Apr.)