When schoolteacher and old maid Mary Elizabeth Potter encountered Wolf Mackenzie, the father of a boy who had dropped out of school, she found herself face to face with a hardened and dangerously attractive man still paying for a crime he did not commit.
But in the man whom the townspeople saw as a dangerous half-breed, Mary discerned an honest, good person.
And Wolf found in the gray little mouse a beautiful woman who believed in him and gave his son a dream.