A Scottish warrior wronged… Sir Giric de Beaumont MacDonald arrives on English soil to exact revenge against the man who murdered his father. When Giric discovers his foe's son is at the tournament in his place, the Scottish knight hatches a plan to defeat the man in combat and demand his enemy’s life as ransom. An English woman on the verge of attaining freedom… Jennet Linton desires one thing… independence. After years of captivity with her uncle, then being held hostage by duty to family and her father's declining mental state, Jennet is on the verge of finding all she’s dreamed of in the arms of a man of her choosing, her Scottish knight. When Giric takes Jennet's brother captive, will their newfound love be enough to forgive old grievances and can Jennet live with a man who has spent the last eleven years devising a way to destroy what she has spent a lifetime protecting?