Lady Sorcha's brother Hay is captured by the British, and the young Scot has no money to rescue him. The only way out is to capture a knight from the enemy camp yourself and demand a ransom from his relatives! However, from the very beginning everything does not go as planned. While Sorcha nurses the wounded captive Sir Ruari Kerr, she inevitably falls in love with him. And no matter how hard he tries, he cannot create in his heart hatred for the dark-haired beauty who snatched him from the clutches of death. Love does not want to know about the war and the cruel games of the rulers. Her law is passion. An ardent, irresistible passion that one day becomes the meaning of life for a man and a woman...