Cowboy and prison escapee Tap Andrews has learned that to stay alive he needs three things: a fast horse, a quick hand, and enough smarts to know when to get out of town Which he has done. But now he tries to pass himself off as a respectable rancher. Meanwhile, Pepper Paige is sick and tired of the fighting and emptiness of her life as a dance-hall girl. And she's tired of fearing violent patron, Jordan Beckett. She gets a chance to escape when a woman injured in a stagecoach wreck dies in her room. She assumes the woman's identity and travels to meet the rancher the woman was going to marry and only knew through letters. What will happen when the pair meet?