The riveting story of the fur trader's daughter and the smooth-talking Southern gentleman and their passionate frontier romance with its promise of bliss. Gabrielle LeBeau is wild like the north woods where she was raised by her father the French fur trader. Running an outpost is in Gabrielle's blood and she knows every path and tree and the Indian names for them. Over the years, she has seen many city folk venture into the pine woods to play frontier woodsman. She fears them, feels disdain for them. But when she finds Jefferson Alexander half froze to death in a snow storm, she doesn't think twice and saves him. As he sleeps, she looks at his handsome chiseled features. This stranger is most welcome in her home … For the first time Gabrielle savors the sweet touch of a man who knows how to love a woman, a gentleman so unlike drunks who tried to grope her at the trading post, unwelcome advances she politely repelled. Then the day comes when jealous enemies make it their business to take away everything Gabrielle has and together with this man by her side, she must fight to hold onto everything that is hers, including Jefferson, the sweetest man on earth.