In 1962, after fleeing her charming, adulterous husband, Suzanne McTavish, desperately needs a job. Few exist in tiny Barkerville, tucked in the forests of Oregon's Cascades. Old Mr. Wilke at the White Water Bar & Grill wants pretty girls tending his bar-and much more. With twenty dollars in her pocket and knots in her stomach, she accepts his proposition. On her own for the first time, the naive twenty-one year-old has much to learn about scoundrels when a handsome, mysterious stranger wiles his way into her world. Chaos descends when two hundred rowdy construction miners swagger into town...