1838. Delia Pritchard gets a chilly reception when she returns to Sangamon, Illinois, after a thirteen-year absence. Some think she left at the age of sixteen because she killed her
parents. It is also rumored that Delia runs with outlaws and that she shot a lawman. When Doc Hemmer insists Delia remain in Sangamon while she recuperates from surgery, he doesn't realize a vicious gang known as the Biedler brothers is on her trail. Farmer Annie Gray kills one of the Biedlers and triggers a violent response from the gang. Delia knows she brought this disaster down on the town and its residents. Can she save them all?