For Rayne Matthews life wasn't easy. At sixteen, she ran away from home to avoid marrying an older man she didn't know. After months of travel, she finally ended up in a small town, Willow Springs where her aunt and uncle lived.Finding that her relatives had passed earlier in the year, Rayne began taking care of the homestead that her uncle left to her. Her life took on a new meaning when she rescued Emma Rodgers, a saloon girl, from the horrors of that life.Together Emma and Rayne worked the farm and soon found that they loved each other. It wasn't until a cruel twist of fate ripped Rayne's world apart filling her full of anger and rage.Rayne's past comes to haunt her and brings her life full circle in a bizarre twist of fate.