Mistress of Hepburn Castle as fiery as her flame-hued tresses, Janet was snatched from her bridegroom's arms and driven into the bed of her most dreaded foe-Robert Gowrie. Raider, chieftain, notorious lover, he claimed her body and soul.

Not even the perfumed pleasure place of an English lord could defend her from his conquest of her heart. The heather-strewn moors of Scotland were to ring with the clash of steel, the thunder of a thousand hooves-all in the name of their love.