Late one night, while the others slept, Lady Fiona Sutton dressed as a male, stole her dower and fled into the Scottish countryside. She had a secret and a most important mission. The life of her brother rested on her shoulders. There was no one she could turn to, no one she could trust. It was up to her and her alone, to rescue her brother from the Scottish King and his hangman's noose. Used to a life of luxury in the Sutton London mansion, Fiona is naive and unaware of the dangers she would face wandering alone in the lowlands of Scotland. Poorly told lies and the helpful Douglas Clan took her far from her brother and into the hands of a Highland mad man.