Lured by fortune, Christa and her family leave the comforts of Boston for the rugged hills of the Pacific Northwest. But tragedy strikes when her parents are taken by cholera, leaving Christa and her brother David with nothing but an isolated cabin to their names. The only escape from poverty lies in Christa's untouched beauty being sold to the highest bidder - and David knows just the man to marry her...But Christa rebels against reason - and riches. Her fiery heart belongs to no man. Yet in the fateful instant her eyes touch upon a perfect stranger, she proves herself wrong. Lean, dark and utterly forbidden, Tall Cloud is the powerful chief of the Suquamish Indians - and Christa's destiny. Now nothing can come between a passion that knows no boundaries - neither an enraged brother, nor a savage enemy from a rival tribe...