Abandoned by her fiance, Rachel Dempsy flees her privileged life in Baltimore for her father's mission on Lake Superior, where she falls for the Ojibwa warrior she is nursing back to health.
Devastated by her fiance's betrayal, young Rachel Dempsy fled a life of privilege in Baltimore's high society for a hard-scrabble existence at her father's mission on the rugged shores of Lake Superior. There she tended the wounded brought to the mission's infirmary and vowed no man would ever touch her heart again--certainly not Black Hawk, the disturbingly sensual Ojibwa warrior she was tenderly nursing back to health.