A wild Alaska adventure and romance occurs for Geoff Dean, the charming son of a New York oil executive and his boss, gorgeous Russian-Alutiiq descendant, Kate Posnikoff, as he accepts the position of trouble shooter for the Native Corporations council. With oil interests and the Bush Administration determined to open sensitive wildlife terrain to oil drilling in both the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve Geoff feels the responsibility of trying to act for the caribou, migratory birds, bowfin whales, musk oxen, polar bears etc. that are going to be endangered by oil development in the wild Beaufort Sea. Both he and Kate Posnikoff experience considerable turmoil as they attempt to deal with their mutual attraction amongst the intrigue of oil interests, political happenings and the future danger of another Exxon Valdez oil spill.