In the lawless California wilderness, Amnesty Brown traveled to claim her uncle's estate in a gold town high in the Sierra Neveda. Shocked by the appalling conditions in the boontown and by the handsome saloon owner Haydn Lomax, Amnisty starts up her uncle's printing press, upsetting more people . She is caught in a deadly web of intrigue and murder and she discovers that in the protective arms of Haydn her passions too have a mind of their own.