When his gold mine proves empty, Juniper's husband vanishes, and the other pioneers flee the dwindling boomtown where they lived. As winter blows in, Juniper pens a series of letters to her husband but fears she is waiting on a ghost, or worse, an outlaw. A century later, trying to escape the heartache of his failed marriage, Johnny Sutherland throws himself into restoring a hundred-year-old abandoned farmhouse in California's San Jacinto Mountains...