Gabriel Goode, a disgraced doctor specializing in the underground field of limb regeneration, travels to the water mining regions of the icy north. There, he meets Abe Fielder, a morally corrupt water exporter who has hired Dr. Goode to heal his sheltered but willful daughter, Clara. Clara soon learns that Goode's heart was stolen during a black market organ theft and replaced with a mechanical surrogate, one that ceases to function if its host undergoes an excess of passion. Goode's forbidden attraction to Clara will force him to risk his life in order to find his heart