When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered workd, she is devastated. Her plans for the future seem distant and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own.

Elizabeth Brechenridge sets sail for Alaska to find her brother in Dawson. But when Elizabeth falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister brother-Clint Brady, a cynical bounty hunter who notoriously shoots to kill. Together, this unlikely couple struggle for survival in the wilderness as they make their way north amid the beauty of the Alaskan frontier.

Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.