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Merrill works in her family's Minnesota ice-harvesting business and feels bound by a promise to care for them. Carpenter Rurik offers the possibility of romance, but another woman's arrival threatens the future she has begun to imagine.

Chantel helps her sister meet a young man from a rival mining family, then falls for his older brother. A mine tragedy puts both romances under pressure as the families confront a feud stretching back decades.

Emmalyne gave up marrying Tavin to obey her father's demand that she care for her parents. Reunited years later, they face the same barrier while dangerous incidents at the family quarry add new urgency to their troubles.