Fleeing to Scotland from powerful enemies, the young widow Lady Fiona Lyburgh had nothing to repay the courageous Scottish knight Gavin McLendon for protection and patronage, and, in desperation, she offered... herself. Imagine her amazement when the young mountain man revealed to her a true paradise of bliss and happiness, so different from her dull, joyless marriage! However, soon a serious obstacle arises on the path of the lovers: Gavin, who can no longer imagine life without a beautiful Englishwoman, increasingly thinks about marriage, and duty, honor and political interests oblige him to take another wife. So what will win - the voice of passion or the arguments of reason?..