Nearly a spinster at twenty, Lady Fortune Lindley is leaving Scotland to return to her birthplace at Maguire's Ford, a vast Ulster estate that she will inherit only if she
marries an Irish Protestant. To that end, Fortune has agreed to consider a match with the Protestant aristocrat William Devers, a man suited to her wealth and status.
But it is the rebellious and disinherited Catholic elder brother, Keiran Devers, who!
steals her heart, driving William to a black and murderous fury. While Fortune
and Keiran's forbidden ecstasy explodes, jealousy and intolerance lead to an
unthinkable tragedy-and a destiny that will test Fortune's will to survive in
a struggle to claim a new land, and a new legacy