Betrothed to the Bandit

After her inheritance is stolen, leaving her destitute, Lydia Shaw responds to a mail-order bride advertisement by gold miner Dean Hunter.

They exchange letters, he proposes, and she heads west with high hopes for love.

But Lydia has unknowingly promised herself to a bandit, one who robs the very stagecoach she’s traveling on to meet him.

It’s not until she’s stuck inside the bandit’s one-room cabin during a snowstorm that she recognizes him and discovers the truth:

She is betrothed to a bandit, and there’s no escape.