Cass is a successful business woman who appears unsuccessful in her personal life and decides to try Dater's Handbook at her sister's encouragement; she dates several guys to test the process.
John Goodnight crosses paths with a stagecoach under attack and comes to the rescue of its passengers, one of whom is a beautiful woman who may or may not have been a prisoner being transported by a detective who did not survive the attack. Their journey together takes them to a gambling riverboat, where Goodnight discovers her true identity.