On holiday in Scotland, Lara Mac Innes discovers the journals of a woman who loved Lara's own very-great grandfather, Lachlan Mac Innes, in the mid-eighteen hundreds.
With the help of Iain Glendenning, a handsome Highlander, Lara traces the path of this long-ago romance.
Their research unearths mystery and murder.
Uncovering the truth, a hundred and fifty years later, is a torturous and frustrating trail.
Along the way, Lara and Iain fall in love.
Can they put an end forever to the feud between the Mac Innes and Glendenning Clans that has persisted since the Battle of Culloden?.