When Billie Shaughnessy's father dies, she finds herself heiress to a lumber company. Although she's spent the past several years in Seattle with her delicate mother, who's also recently passed on, she remembers with fondness the times she spent with her beloved father as a child, working as a "lumberjane," and decides to continue running the company herself and working alongside the men.

However, it's not quite the way she remembered it. Her father's partner is vicious and frightening, and she encounters anger from local Makah Indian chief Proud Eagle, whose wife, along with other members of the tribe, was killed in a mud slide caused by logging.

Billie is forced to reevaluate her childhood perceptions, as she falls in love and faces danger from her father's partner.

Of the Cassie Edwards books I've read, I have to say this is the best one so far. ( )