Hannah Carlson refusing the marital choices in Iowa goes west to marry a rancher, Jacob Moore. Her girlish dreams are cruelly dashed when her new husband becomes a raging fiend. He physically and mentally abuses her until that fateful night, knowing he will kill her and her newborn baby she strikes a terrible blow against him and flees into the night. Nearly dead from her injuries, she finds the cabin of a lonely surveyor, Brice Fowler. He tends her wounds, takes care of her, and finds her a safe place on the Bidwell Ranch caring for his ailing wife. He falls deeply in love with Hannah and wants to marry, but she now fears intimacy. After she is arrested and sentenced to hang for murder, Brice desperately combs the Navajo Nation for the only witness whose testimony could save her life. Can his love save her and their life together?