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The daughter of one of New York City's most successful businessmen, Katherine Tyler never fit in with high society. With the city in the depths of the Depression - and marriage to the right blue-blood seemingly the only thing to which a rich young woman should aspire - Kate becomes a nurse and works hard and long in a clinic for the desperately poor. Yet when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity knocks, she jumps at the chance to help patients in one of California's largest hospitals. Then the unthinkable happens: Kate is kidnapped right off the cross-country train and held for ransom in the most lawless part of Texas. Her only hope for escape lies with a man unlike any she has ever seen ...