When Grady Henderson is charged with vandalism for trying to stop the demolition of her father's cabin in the Adirondack Mountains, the unconventional judge in the small town of Garnet Lake remands her to the care of Thane McMasters, a carpenter struggling to make a living. That's the last thing Thane needs, but soon Grady is all he wants. The attraction will complicate everything especially his friendship with a state trooper who will do what he can to see Grady prosecuted and to keep her house arrest from becoming Thane's life sentence.