The closed Christine Anderson considered herself a hopeless old maid. At home there was no hope for a happy turn of fate, there was only one thing left to do - to go alone to distant and wild Montana, to the inherited ranch, which was managed by the cowboy Buck Lanning. The last thing the girl could have suspected was that her manager would turn out to be not a stern old man at all, but a desperate young gunslinger, a man with whom it was impossible not to fall in love...