The teenaged son of a movie star and movie producer has run away from Camp Vista, where he was supposed to learn survival skills. But has he learned enough to survive in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada? Only one of the camp counselors, Diana Miller, knows what drove the boy into the Eldorado Forest the last night of camp, but she's afraid to tell. Three days of futile searches by local authorities and volunteers prompts a call to Caleb Foster, a man trained by his Apache grandfather to find and follow the most minute of tracks.

Diana doesn't believe this arrogant man can do any better than the sheriff and his men, but something about Caleb excites her, and even when he tells her to go back, that she'll only be a bother, she follows him. And bother him she does, more than any other woman ever has. Together Caleb and Diana discover danger and passion...and much, much more.