Redwood, California, 1890 Meet Penny Dodd, a young woman whose fianc decides to leave her days before her wedding. Brokenhearted and dismayed, Penny answers a mail-order bride ad and sets out to the wild west, hoping to find love with Patrick Murray. But when she arrives, she finds him standing at the altar with another woman ... Can Penny's bad luck turn around? Will Redwood and its townsfolks make it through the deadly disaster coming...