Guy Sinclair joined his cousin Egmont Fitzgrigg in William's campaign to take the English throne but while his cousin was well rewarded for feats in battle while Guy was left with scrapes. On a twisted peice of fate, William orders him to marry a stranger by proxy to allow the girl to return to her kin.

Eidyth Hamblyn despised men in general with her hatred and distrust earned from a lifetime of abuse and neglect by her own father. How would she survive being wed to a Norman enemy?