On the ship from Ireland, Eliza O’Connor loses her mother and husband to cholera. After training under the local physician, she longs to become a doctor, but few schools accept women. Now the doctor has passed away, and she works at her father's boarding house. When a handsome physician arrives, beaten and stripped of his jacket and boots, she believes he's another gold-crazy miner heading for the hills where her brother has ventured. At his mother's desperate request, Dr. Levi Dumont travels from Boston to find his younger brother and bring him home. After Levi is robbed, his trustworthy horse drops him at the O'Connor's Boarding House where the enchanting Eliza treats his wounds. When Eliza's brother returns from the gold fields with a broken leg, Eliza learns her friend who traveled to the mine with her husband needs medical attention. Eliza is determined to make the treacherous journey. When she accompanies Levi to Diamond Falls, Levi discovers affection for Eliza despite his engagement to a woman in Boston. Though Eliza and Levi come from different worlds, their hopes are the same. Will Eliza have opportunity to study medicine? Can Levi find a life with the Irish lass despite his fiancé and medical practice in Boston