Determined to live her own life, Rosamund Bolton has claimed her inheritance, rejected her latest suitor - and decided to travel to the court of her dear friend Queen Margaret of Scotland. Against this lavish and unpredictable backdrop, she meets the man who will forever change her destiny. Patrick Leslie, the first earl of Glenkirk, has a tragic past, but he brings to Rosamund a passion that few will ever know. And as war looms once more between England and Scotland, and Henry VIII seeks to make himself the most powerful monarch in all of Eurpoe, Patrick and Rosamund will undertake a dangerous mission on behalf of King James IV that will test the limits of their loyalty and the depths of their love.