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Medieval scholar Emery Truitt takes his first position in the arid highlands of the American west. Distant peaks of the Sawtooth Range on the eastern horizon stand as a barrier to his hopes for a post in the ivied halls of New England. Discouraged, he nonetheless forges ahead through this academic wasteland where officious cowboys manage the college, the faculty is lackluster, and the students unimaginative.

College student Kristina Day, daughter of board chair Christian Day and sole heir to the Hawke agricultural empire, admires the monkish professor who has opened her eyes to a vast world beyond the confines of her rural homeland. Engaged to a distant relative in the Hawke clan, Kristi represents all the hope her family holds for future generations. Increasingly at odds with her father's vision, she tests an untrodden path by applying for the position of Professor Truitt's assistant.

As soon as Truitt denies Kristi the post, his own goals are interrupted by a personal tragedy rising from his past. Hidden secrets unleash a vortex of ills around him that rob him of name and standing. To regain his honor, he must seek the answers to a lost past and only then is he able to recognize the gifts that Kristi has to offer.