Veronica longs for an epic romance, she sits around campfires regaling her girlfriends with romantic fairy tales that she's created in her own mind. Financially destitute, she decides to become a mail order bride and receives a proposal from Samuel, a wealthy banker on the west coast. Samuel is rich and polite...too polite...he doesn't seem to be type to protect Veronica from danger like the men she envisions in her fairy tale stories. But one night a group of marauders set upon their home, and she finds out what a hero her new husband really is...