Zac Randolph owns and runs the Little Corner of Heaven
Saloon in San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast. He's a
gambler by trade and by nature. He takes care of the girls
who work for him, but no woman is as exciting as gambling,
no woman means as much to him as his saloon. His life is
perfect until a distant cousin, Lily Sterling, arrives from
Virginia and upsets everything.
Taking Zac up on a casually extended invitation, this fresh-
faced beauty has fled her father and a prospective husband.
She insists she doesn't want Zac to take care of her, but
Zac is as good-hearted as he is selfish. He knows Lily is
too innocent for San Francisco. When he can't convince her
to go back to Virginia, he tries to find her a safe job.
But Lily's good-heartedness continually gets her into
trouble from which Zac has to rescue her. When she is
caught in his bed, compromised (she wasn't, but nobody's
going to believe two nearly naked people), an immediate
wedding was the only solution.
Lily was more than happy to believe Zac loves her, but Zac
is determined to stay away from Lily so he can leave her
with a clean conscience. Lily sees only the good in Zac and
believes she's been sent to San Francisco to save him from
himself, but Zac is determined to get Lily away from the
saloon and out of his system. He should have known by now
that where there's a "flower woman", there's a Randolph
about to lose his heart.