Bereaved by death, betrayed by love, nurse Gin Selton seeks a safe, new life in Minnesota. But Noah Grady--whose reputation as a lover exceeds his renown as a physician--makes excessive demands at work that bring them into explosive opposition... until, in private, his unexpected tenderness takes them to incomparable ecstasy.

But whispered words of passion are not a pledge of love. Torn, Gin flees to a mountain clinic. Noah relentlessly pursues her. They are headstrong and foolish, unable to live apart, unable to love together.