A well-behaved girl of marriageable age is obliged to obey her father's will and get married. However, Lady Sibylla Covers, who has already refused three suitors at the very altar, does not want to come to terms with this. Her name is on everyone’s lips, but the noble beauty doesn’t care about this. And then one day fate brings her together with one of her rejected admirers... Now that the border between England and Scotland is once again restless, many trials await them. And true passion between a man and a woman grows even stronger in the hour of mortal danger...