An unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat journey up the Missouri River to MontanaShe is a self-centered young woman from a privileged family who fears the outdoors and avoids anything rustic He is a preacher living under a sense of duty and obligation to love the unlovable people in the world She isnt letting anything deter her from solving a family mystery that surfaced after her mothers death He is on a mission to reach the rejects of society in the remote wilderness regions of Montana Miss Fannie Rousseau and Reverend Samuel Beck are opposites in every way except in how they both keep wondering if their paths will ever cross again