Minnesota Governor's daughter Lizette Burnquist is beautiful, spirited and talented, but she has one big problem - any man who falls in love with her is doomed to die an early and sudden death. Lizette has flown to the tall pines of northern Minnesota to paint her nature landscapes and to escape the pitying stares of St. Paul society and the nickname they've given her - "Unlucky Lizzie" - when Nathan Faulkner, wealthy owner of Faulkner Lumber, finds her nearly frozen to death in a snowstorm. Although neither of the pair acknowledges their true identity, the two are drawn by an overwhelming sexual magnetism to each other. They begin a tempestuous love affair that encompasses the logging camps of the northland and a St. Paul inaugural ball where identities are finally revealed. Only one man stands between them, and only he knows why it is so dangerous to love "Unlucky Lizzie".
