What Carrick County's powerful Phelan family want, they usually get, whether that's land like the Fitzgerald farm, or women, like the Fitzgerald girls. Handsome Liam can't tempt Ranalt, whose heart belongs to neighbour Colin Sweeney. But his older brother Rory attracts her sister Lacey like a magnet draws steel. When the boys and their father Patrick visit Joe and Sheila Fitzgerald with a mysterious offer, all hell breaks loose. A furious Joe orders the Phelans off his property and away from his daughters, warning he knows what to do about 'their kind.' Soon afterwards, Fitzgerald fences are slashed and cattle lie torn apart. Coincidence or cause for fear? There are secrets in Carrick County people don't dare reveal. But Ranalt will risk everything to protect her family, the man she loves and the little girl she adores. Each turn of the summer moon brings danger and in the shadows, something waits...