After her inheritance is stolen, leaving her destitute, Lydia Shaw responds to a mail-order bride advertisement by gold miner Dean Hunter.
They exchange letters, he proposes, and she heads west with high hopes for love.
But Lydia has unknowingly promised herself to a bandit, one who robs the very stagecoach she’s traveling on to meet him.
It’s not until she’s stuck inside the bandit’s one-room cabin during a snowstorm that she recognizes him and discovers the truth:
She is betrothed to a bandit, and there’s no escape.
