Utah 1861
Up in the high reaches of the Humboldt Mountains a woman has come begging for rescue. Her shepherd husband and two sons are lost to her. But winter is coming and the risks are great, the party must evade a band of Indian renegades and get down from the mountains before the snow sets in and they are cut off. What the posse discovers appears straightforward at first sight but things start to unravel as further discoveries are made and the guilty party suddenly becomes as elusive as melting ice.
High and dry on a snow-covered plain, trapped and held at bay by a deadly band of renegades, there is only one chance for escape and resolution and it comes to them in the lean form of their leader, the one-time hunter and trapper, Steven Stephens.