At Christmas, a cheerful publicist teams up with a cynical business owner and his team to help a charity in need.

When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.

The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel west during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they “must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters,” including mill owner Belinda Mulrooney and aspiring writer Jack London.