Seventeen-year-old beauty Victoria Farrady, a beautiful flower of the high society of the American South, by the will of fate became a frightened refugee making her way to Texas, away from the cruel Yankees. It was there, on the prairies of the Wild West, that she met a man whom she fell in love with with all the strength of her first passion. However, the courageous Edward Hanover, Victoria's lover, is one of those ruthless Yankees whom she fears and hates...