比尔·卡德尤被宣告溺水身亡已经一年了，他的遗孀维姬如今已经嫁给了他的老朋友兼商业伙伴亨利·朗兹。然而，当比尔意外地从他曾被困的小岛归来时，维姬该怎么办呢？嗯，作为一个曾两次被丈夫忽视的妻子，维姬对两个丈夫争相讨好她的关注感到十分愉快，并不急于做出决定……这让可怜的比尔和亨利都感到颇为尴尬与不安。

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.