Shive MacDermot and Tiernan O'Hara agree to wed to end a five-year feud between their clans. Though an unlikely alliance at first, Shive begins to fall in love with her new husband. She soon realises the murderer of her brother is a member of her own clan. How can she win Tiernan's love and prove to him she is not the enemy?
Shive undertakes an epic struggle to save her lands and Tiernan's from the ambitious Muirdeadach O'Rourke, determined to kill anyone who opposes his bid to become high-king of all Ireland. Will she prove worthy of Tiernan, or will he believe all of the vicious lies about her supposed love for another, and become her enemy himself?
