When Lacey Montana's father was sentenced to twenty years of hard labor, the girl had no choice but to follow the prison van to try to free him. However, the Indians got ahead of the girl, and she found herself in the middle of a sun-scorched prairie with a wounded prisoner in her arms.

Left alone in the desert, Matt Drego and Lacey wage a desperate struggle for survival, not noticing how new ties begin to bind them, bonds of passion. Matt Drego dreams of winning the girl, but to win Lacey's heart, he first needs to help her save her father.