Melissa Logan stood by in horror as her husband sold her to pay a debt. She knew that marrying Coy Logan to escape her drunken father and brothers had been a huge mistake. Coy dragged her to Dawson to join the Yukon gold rush. Now penniless and with a baby she "belonged" to Dylan Harper, a man said to have a heart of stone and a knife under his store counter that he wielded without hesitation.