Gorgeous, wealthy Venice Leiland arrives in Salvage, Colorado to find her lost uncle and keep the tiny mining camp from turning into a ghost town. The last person she expects to find is Noble McCaneaghy, her childhood companion and protector. But Noble, banished from the Leiland mansion as a boy, wants nothing to do with a rich man's daughter, even one who has grown as beautiful as Venice. But thrown together on a journey deep into the uncharted mountains, passion is ignited in a love that was never meant to be.