A slipper on a city street. A vanished bride. A wilderness that doesn't forgive.

When a chance discovery on a New York sidewalk reunites a stoic engineer with the woman he's quietly loved for years, he learns she's promised to a man who doesn't deserve her. He urges her to break the engagement—then leaves for a brutal railroad project on the Alaskan frontier, certain she'll walk down the aisle anyway. She doesn't. She walks out of her gilded life entirely.

When she appears at his remote camp disguised as a young secretary, the frozen wilderness suddenly becomes far more dangerous than any storm. Her jilted fiancé arrives to reclaim her, and in one desperate moment she declares a lie that binds them both: that she is already married—to the engineer. To save her reputation and his career, he makes the lie true. A hurried marriage of convenience. A performance of devotion for a camp full of watchful eyes. And beneath it all, feelings neither will confess.

Then a man is found shot dead in his cabin, a revolver goes missing, and suspicion falls close to home. As a murder inquiry tightens around the camp, a plane goes down in an Arctic storm and a volcano rains fire on a stranded yacht. Stripped of every pretense, the two must face what they truly are to each other.

But when the truth finally comes out, one question remains—and the answer could send her back to civilization forever. Heart warming Emilie Loring clean romance.