Upon arriving in Kenworthy, California, mail-order bride Juniper Cohen is met by the pounding of the gold mine, an untamable landscape, and her greatest surprise of all: the kind and loving man who awaits her. But when the mine proves empty of profit, and when Junipers husband, John, vanishes, Juniper is left to fend for herself and her young daughter in the dwindling boomtown that is now her home.