Susannah Hopkins thought she had the world at her feet after conquering medical school and lining up a dream appointment as the resident physician at Wellburn Orphanage, until her best laid plans go awry. Thanks to an obstinate member of the orphanage's Board of Directors, the newly minted doctor finds herself packing off to the gloomy halls of a manor called Thornfield, just outside of a tiny New York hamlet. Far from home and her lofty aspirations alike, Susannah finds new purpose in an unlikely place: the heart of her determined young patient, and the pale blue eyes of one Lord Stephen Camden. Can she forge a new future from the ashes of her dreams and melt the ice protecting Stephen's wounded heart?