Wild, devastatingly handsome Heath Oakes broke Alison Anderson's heart and humiliated her when she was a vulnerable twelve-year-old and he was a delinquent sixteen-year-old rebel. She was hoping never to see him again. Ten years later, however, when she returns to her grandfather's estate for his funeral, she is appalled to discover that she has inherited his wilderness resort The Promise jointly with Heath. Stipulations in the will bind them together in insuring its future. Furious, Alison sets out to break the will, but Heath has other plans. He shanghais her into a wild canoe voyage down the treacherous Northern River. There, alone together, forced to pit their minds and bodies against not only the wilderness, but also a mysterious enemy that reveals itself in the form of a sasquatch determined to kill them both, Heath and Alison come to a new understanding of both themselves and their unique Inheritance.