Daracha must hide her joy when Edan is the only man of Clan MacGrough to return from Culloden alive. She will have him any way she can. A handfast marriage is enough for her.

Lame almost from birth, the long road home carrying his beloved brother's body has exhausted Edan. There can be no rest. They must bury Hamish and leave the glen. But the lowlands of Scotland in the year 1746 is a dangerous place for highland refugees. With women and children to care for, he must bury certain secrets deep, or hang.

A conversation with the ferryman gives them shelter for a few days. MacGrough's involvement with the ferryman and his cousin proves far more than he bargained for. There are wolves on two legs who roam Glasgow as vicious as any in the hills and Edan has come to the attention of one more brutal than the rest.