In the summer of 1877, Bridget is orphaned when her unreliable father succumbs to a snakebite asthey're crossing the Kansas prairie. Arriving in Dodge City as a penniless orphan, she's quicklyrecruited for work at the Buffalo Queen brothel and befriends her bookish mentor Constance,securing her home and employment as the favourite of Sheriff's Deputy Jim Bonnie. As winter creepsin from the plains, female gunfighter Spartan Lee rides into town, and Bridget falls in love withher the moment their paths cross. Their affair threatens the balance of power at the Queen, but isinterrupted when an old flame returns to the brothel, setting off a series of double-crosses thatresult in the destruction of the Buffalo Queen and a searing heartbreak for Bridget. Their lives inruins, Bridget, Constance and Lila resolve to take revenge on those who wronged them - but willthey succeed in their mission? In a misogynistic world of outlaws and gunfights, nothing is certain...