Summoned back to Philadelphia from London, Violet Mitchell never expected to find her brothers living on the edge of financial ruin while their father seeks wealth in Montana's gold fields. With the family's home and social standing at risk, Violet makes a drastic decision. Morgan Callahan rode away from his family's cattle ranch to make his own fortune. Now as he finishes exploiting a mother lode of silver, a young woman claiming to be his late partner's daughter turns up wanting to be taken to her father's mine. Suspecting that she works for the mining outfit that is trying to steal his land, he has no qualms about snatching her and holding her at his camp. Determined to claim what belongs to her family, Violet summons up the courage to cope with the hazards and discomforts of an untamed land and the disturbingly masculine stranger who holds her fate in his hands. But an error of judgment brings down a hailstorm of calamity and danger that upends her plans and deepens her bond to a man who is not the match a lady wishes to make but could be all that a passionate woman desires.