Mack McQuire is a loner, a trapper, and a man who speaks more with his rifle than with words. Roaming the high wilds with a packhorse and a flintlock, Mack wants nothing but peace, pelts, and open sky.

But when he trades furs for a beautiful young native woman-Wren, stolen from her tribe-he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will bring vengeance to his doorstep. With Wren's warrior brother hunting them and the mountains turning cruel, Mack must decide if he's just surviving… or finally learning what it means to care.

The wilderness is unforgiving.

So is Mack McQuire.