When schoolteacher and spinster Mary Elizabeth Potter runs into Wulf Mackenzie, the father of a school dropout, she finds herself face to face with a bitter and dangerously attractive man who is still paying for a crime he didn't commit. But in the one whom the townspeople see as a dangerous half-breed, Mary saw an honest, good person. And Wulf found a beautiful woman in the gray mouse who believed him and gave his son a dream.