The beautiful Vanora is helping her uncle, Lord Blairmond the distinguished Statesman who lives in London, to write his autobiography, when she has an urgent call from her brother, Ewen, to return immediately to Scotland.
He has just become Chieftain of the McKyle Clan and she wonders why he wants her.
The McKyles have for years fought with the MacFiles whose Chieftain is the Earl of Glenfile.
The Earl has also returned to Scotland because his father is dying and he has been tricked and deceived by two women he has been having affaires-de-coeur with in London
He comes to the decision that he will never fall in love again and trusts no one.