When Clara Dove takes the stagecoach West to begin her new job as school teacher in a ranching town, she little realizes the fate that awaits her. First she meets Early Cummings, loner, cattleman, and secret dom, with a yen for tying women up, who kidnaps her, binds her and spirits Clare to his home to make her his slave. Clara thinks she hates Early for the things he makes her feel, as she responds to being shackled and made to do his bidding. But she begins to realize there are much worse men in the West when she is stolen from Early and trained to be a human puppet who responds to any demand men make. Now that it is too late, Clara knows she has come to love Early. And Early, who has learned the same, is searching for her. But the west is big and even the intrepid cowboy thinks the odds are hopeless.