Catherine finds herself stranded in a small western town in the late sixteen hundreds and is rescued by a cattle baron, who hires her to become his wife, for, how ever long he needs her. She ultimately finds that he is a domineering man, who demands obedience and during her struggle with his controlling ways she falls in love with him and finds herself emotionally and physically involved with him even though he prepares to marry another woman. Jonathan Thornton, the new cattle baron, because, of his father's illness is returning home and stumbles upon a young woman being sold to a brothel and...