Emma Wild lived most her life in Valentine growing up around the saloon girls and the gangs that came to swoon them. She never sought that life, choosing from day to day to clean after the misgivings of the old west, to those who chose to live so recklessly. Her only friend, Lilah Preston, there to keep her loneliness at bay. But When Lilah discovers her destiny that throws her in the cross hairs of both John Marston and Colm O'driscoll, Emma is pulled under the savage waters their feud stirs around her. Broken, she is left to the mercy of the Dutch Van der linde himself whose gentle commanding touch provides the only lifeline to her survival. If he so chooses to save her.