Helen Ketterling thought she had left the Bad River Sioux
Reservation in South Dakota behind her thirteen years ago.
Once an idealistic and spirited schoolteacher, Helen was
swept into the lives of the Sioux people and the arms of
Reese Blue Sky. These fiery opposites attracted with such
heat that their love burned brightly—if all too briefly.
Now a single parent with a son—a son Reese knows nothing
about—Helen accepts an assignment that brings her back to
Bad River and into the realm of the one man she cannot
forget.
A family tragedy has brought Reese home to Bad River. And
though it has been years since he has seen Helen, Reese
immediately recalls the bittersweet memories of a time
when he was very much in love. Now the passion he felt for
Helen has been rekindled but he senses in her a secret
that she will not—or cannot—share with him. Soon, Reese
discovers that the life on the reservation he dearly
cherished appears to have been threatened. In a world
where tradition and ritual face off against development
and greed, a proud but lonely man attempts to reconcile
his past, hoping to find his place in the heart of his one
true love.