When Véronique Girard was five, her father left for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a deathbed promise carries Véronique from Paris to Willow Springs to find her long-lost father--said to be mining in nearby mountains. But when she asks local freighter Jack Brennan to take her on his treacherous mining camp deliveries, neither realizes how much a simple request will forever alter their lives.