After being turned down by yet another employer, nurse Adele Cowen is in dire straits – her rent is due, her fiancé has abandoned her, and she has nothing left to keep her in New York. When a chance to marry the mayor of a small town in Texas arises, she jumps at the chance. But fate has other ideas. When bandits strike her train just outside Fielder’s Union, Arkansas, Adele is left alone in the middle of a strange land. It seems impossible when she stumbles across a lonely, sick man in desperate need of her help. The stranger is Preston Wilder, and he’s a bounty hunter in search of the Silver Gang – the very gang that robbed her train. As Adele nurses him back to health, she’s now in a very different sort of danger – the danger of losing her heart. As the two grow ever closer, Adele can’t help but wonder what it was that brought them together. Coincidence, fate, or something more – the mysterious but undeniable bond of love. Yet despite all that has occurred, she’s still engaged to another man…