When Baylee Mitchell's full-blooded Choctaw Indian friend is arrested for poaching, she will do anything to help him. But she wasn't counting on being in close contact with Dane Winslow, a Texas DA. Dane has come to Louisiana to help his father build a case for John Belvue. While Dane's father is recuperating from a heart attack, Dane agrees to gather information and evidence his father can use to build a case. But a Texas history teacher, Baylee Mitchell seems to be the only one who has a good rapport with the people living along the Dorcheat bayou, and John Belvue has disappeared. It's not long before Dane not only wants to gain her trust, but her love.