When hard-driving Chicago attorney Rachel Winston is pursued by an organized crime family, she never imagines the outcome of awakening in the raucous gold mining town of Idaho City in 1864, where those with sympathies for each side of the Civil War explode into violence. Here and now, she must learn not only to survive but to face the trauma of her past by accepting the boundless love of a big-hearted pioneer clan, as well as Ethan and Rose Stonehill, a wounded Union cavalry officer and his young daughter striving to forge a new life on the American frontier.