At seventeen, Betsy Winslow is certain she will never measure up to her beautiful older sister, Lanie. So whenhandsome Vic Perrago begins showering her with attention, Betsy is flattered, feeling attractive and desirable for the first time in her life.
When Vic persuades her to elope, Betsy naively envisions a life of grandeur as a rancher's wife. All her dreams come crashing down, however, when she realizes the man she loves is not who he claimed to be at all.