Lady Catriona Hennesn, marked by the finger of the Unknown since childhood, was rightfully considered the “mistress” of a mysterious valley lost in the Scottish mountains, where, according to legend, the ancient Celtic gods lived. But even a servant of the formidable Lady Goddess is, first of all, a young woman, doomed to the eternal female fate - the fate of a lover, wife and mother. Even the laws of antiquity recede before the greatest law of the world - the law of Love, which threw proud Catriona into the arms of the fiercest enemy of any Scotsman - the English aristocrat Richard Kinster, who does not recognize any power over himself and lives only by his passions...