Pressured by her family to marry a wealthy man, and unsure of her own feelings, lovely, bookish Elisa Parker flees to a remote northern Canadian settlement. Elisa hopes that a few months of teaching indigenous children will permit her time and space to decide whether to marry Lord Cavendish, of whom she is very fond, but ... nothing more. However, the family fortunes rest on Elisa's marriage -- and the sudden appearance of a handsome, virile, half-Indian Mountie Brandon Walker makes Elisa's decision even more difficult!