Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks as she becomes a valued part of the local community falling in love with the people who call Klutina Lake home. But one Alaskan man in particular stands out among Josie's new friends: Palmer Saxon a quiet intense sword craftsman whose very existence forces her to question whether her heart wants to return to Washington at all--or make Alaska her home.