Major Lionel Armstrong is 'attacked' on his way home from the last battle in France against Napoleon. The beautiful Robin Dunstead nurses him back to health, not revealing that she is the mistress of Hillview Manor instead of a servant. Her stepmother abducts Robin and Lionel to Gretna Green to have them join in a union that would be very favorable for herself and her daughter Bertha and the end to Robin's claim to her father's barony. The blind Major Lochiel Cameron joins the couple in a devastating adventure on his quest to remain Laird of the Macgregors. The outcome of that quest proves to be mind shattering.