Mick Parish, a Conard County sheriff's deputy, didn't like women. The brutal, powerfully built mestizo Indian knew how to do well without these eccentric and capricious creatures and preferred to live alone. Probably, this would have continued further if one day on a snowy road Mick had not met a beautiful stranger. She was like moonlight, a soft whisper and life-giving heat. She was all a promise of tender and warm femininity, which he, it turns out, had unconsciously yearned for all his life...