When Tavish Graham stumbles upon the naked body of Sophie D'Alembert he thinks she is dead. But it doesn't take him long to discover that Sophie is very much alive and more woman than he can handle, so he leaves her with his brother, James, the earl of Monleigh. Beautiful young and French, Sophie finds herself in the wild, strange lands of the Scotts. terrified and not willing to trust James, she fails to tell him that she is the granddaughter of Louis XIV and that she is fleeing a forced marriage to the hated English duke of rockingham.