Young Nelda, whom the whim of her adventurer father threw into the deadly prairies of the Wild West, suddenly became orphaned during an Indian raid on a migrant caravan... From whom could the fragile, lonely and completely helpless beauty expect help and support? Oddly enough - only from his father’s worst enemy, the courageous and noble English aristocrat Selby Harleston, who is ready not only to protect Nelda, but also to give her the strength and happiness of true, tender, all-consuming love...