After her aunt's death, M tis woman Brigitte Marchal finds herself alone in Montreal. Uninterested in the convent and desperate to flee a loathsome suitor, she disguises herself as a young man to travel west by voyageurs' brigade in search of her long-absent, fur-trader father. But her inexperience and disguise don't hide her for long.
Ren Dufour yields to the unwelcome position of shielding Brigitte, but he cannot hide her identity...