Angelique Lawson, a prim, na?ve spinster, has an injured, murderous train robber dumped on her doorstep with instructions to get him healthy enough to hang. The handsome, persuasive Demon Daugherty stirs feelings she's never felt in all her twenty-four years, but it's clear he's not to be trusted. When his true identity becomes known and she has the opportunity for true love, her own past comes back to haunt her. It takes a deadly disaster...