Returning home after being shanghaied four years earlier, Tavish Wilder seeks revenge against railroad giant Kingston Montgomery, who had murdered Tavish's wife and stolen his vast expanse of Washington timberland
British-Russian Savana Rezanov Mackenzie is drawn to two different men--Baron Peter Sarakof, who promises to reunite Savana with her Russian grandmother, Countess Rezanov, and Captain Trace Wilder, an American whose ambition is to see the Pacific northest belong to the United States