Can two battered hearts find solace or will the past continue to haunt their lives?

Van Donovan returns to Pleasant Valley, Oregon where twelve years earlier, as a boy of fifteen, he left in handcuffs after standing guard for a bank robbery. He's learned a trade and excelled at it. He's ready to prove to his father and the town he can amount to something.

Upon his return he learns the fate of the daughter of an innocent man who died in the robbery crossfire. To make amends he takes her out of the saloon and gives her a job. But can she forget his part in her father's death?