The carelessness of the young Scotsman Kahlan Maccabe almost led to the death of the entire clan - and now he is ready, in order to make amends, to marry his older brother's fiancée Rionna MacDonald. The named Kahlan is beautiful and smart, she is capable of making any man happy, but only not her husband, who stubbornly avoids her. However, passion has no power over the arguments of reason, and every day the brave highlander falls more and more in love with Rionna. Everything could have turned out quite predictably if not for the war...