When a shoot-out between Faren Reeves and Cyrus Post over a “City girl” who comes to the small fictitious town of Jasper Creek, Idaho, leaves the men with grotesque injuries, Lucille, a local girl who has always loved and planned to marry Faren, must decide how to work back into his life. She has been gone to nursing school for three years. When she returns to Jasper Creek to take up her love affair again with Faren she is appalled at the shocking life-changing revelations confronting her at every turn. She makes plans with a local doctor to treat Faren’s injuries. As she makes her stubborn plans to recapture Faren’s love, she discovers truths about herself, truths that affect her life and the doctor’s.