This is her last chance before winter comes, and she won't allow man or nature to rob her of what she's worked so hard to claim. Alena Sommer is a woman of unflinching resolution, but when she arrives in Idaho Territory's Sawtooth City, she learns that not only is the town dying but so has the man she was to marry. In spite of the looming hardships of winter and uncertainty for the town's future, Lena resolves to claim a hearth of her own...