Desperate to escape her abusive aunt, Charity answers an ad for a mail-order bride.
Furtively she boards an early morning train to Chesterfield Colorado and marriage to a man she's never met. She arrives hungry and destitute only to be told by the station master the prospective bridegroom is deceased. She also discovers he was the town drunk and the "purty" house he described was an unlivable hovel. It was all lies. The news is more than...