Young aristocrat Chauncey Fitzhugh travels to gold rush-ridden California to find desperate gold miner Delaney Sexton, whom she believes is responsible for the death of her father. Chauncey chooses love as a weapon of revenge... frivolously forgetting that this weapon is double-edged. The beauty of the Englishwoman wounds Delaney to the very heart, but the avenger herself becomes a victim of her own passion...