Kay Franklin is on the run from her marriage, from a world of deceit and betrayal and infidelity. But she is also running from her own betrayal of the values and beliefs she was raised with, and her flight will take her to a world she has never imagined, a world she thought had vanished.

Finn O'Reilly is a rancher fighting to stay in the only world he has ever known and loved, but he too has his own past that impels him every bit as much as the forces that want to drive him from his land.

Both of them are trying to live up to the ideals of the dead. Both of them are uncertain of the future. And when their lives intersect in a moment of violence, they both stumble into a chance for a new beginning. If they can stay alive.