Cynthia McKenna is an atractive, well-respected Senior Editor at a New York publishing firm. Raised by her widowed grandmother, she believes she has all she ever wished for. That is until she must go to the mountains of western North Carolina to inspect her inheritance, an estate founded by Lord Jeremy Maxwell, great grandfather from Scotland. The trip was only to decide on a price to sell the estate.

When she arrives in the town of High Glen and sees her ancestral home, she is confronted with emotions that she can't explain.

She meets John McCloud who is so different than what she is...