This is the story of Hunter Bell, a Presbyterian minister turned gambler. Venturing into a blizzard to chase away wolves drawn close to his cabin by hunger, Hunter finds a beautiful young woman, Quaye McGandley, in the snow, wounded by the wolves and half dead. She is an Irish woman sold into marital slavery to a brutal huband who then brought her to American against her will. As Hunter nurses her back to health, he finds that his ministrations to Quaye have opened his heart to his greatest fear--that he might love again.