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Ryan Farraday and his mining crew discover a group of Indigenous people living faultless lives in the mountains of British Columbia. Ryan is suspicious of a culture that trusts so carelessly and loves so completely, but in this present-day Eden, the rivers run with gold—and he takes full advantage.
Soon the crew and this Native community influence each other with tragic results. Elizabeth Malone demonstrates the madness of bigotry by hating the people’s colorless skin. The Natives, in turn, encounter fear and racial hostility, tensions they’d never imagined. Meanwhile, a killer emerges where no one has murdered before. Ryan realizes his group’s worldly presence has endangered their paradise and threatens Lunara above all, the Native woman whose innocence has won his heart.
He must now test the measure of his own morality: either escape with his crew and the gold they’ve collected, or sacrifice his own life to save Lunara and the values he knows she would willingly die for.
