When Tasha Watson travels to Churchill, Manitoba, to get information from ex-lover Finn MacEwan, she doesn't plan to rekindle their affair. But the troubled, haunted man she finds is far different from the one who left her two years before, though the desire exploding between them is devastatingly familiar. Despite her deepening feelings, Tasha is determined to get to the bottom of Finn's mysterious problems.Trapped by his honor and a shamanic appeal to the Great Nanuk, Finn has spent over a hundred winters forced to roam the ice of Hudson Bay in the form of a polar bear. Loneliness and despair have nearly taken their toll...until Tasha appears on his doorstep, bringing to life the very things he can't afford to feel-love and hope.But neither hope nor earth-shattering passion, not even the love of a lifetime, can help fight destiny, and the decisions Tasha and Finn face could all lead to cold, Arctic heartbreak.