She was promised to God, until she met him.

Charlie Coltrain has been an outlaw since the end of the Civil War. For the past year he has been working an honest job as a trail hand. After he saves a postulate from a gang of marauders, he takes her to the nearest town, hoping to put her on a stage back to the convent. Unfortunately, their journey is sidetracked by the bounty hunters and the ranger on Charlie's trail, this time for a crime he didn't commit. He is fascinated by Angelina's innocence, but he believes he is too old and too broken to ever share her life.

Angelina is captivated by Charlie's unearthly beauty, and the pain she glimpses in his eyes. She decides it is her mission to save Charlie from himself. She flees with him to Mexico hoping to show him that there is still good in this world and in him. She is uncertain what to do with the new and confusing feelings she has for the man. Is the only way to save Charlie by ruining herself?