Scot against Scot. Clan against clan—the day when Highlander turned on Highlander in a horrific and unforgivable act of murder and treachery.

Daniel MacArthur doesn't know much about his country's history, and he doesn't care. He has enough problems coping with life in the twenty-first century. He's spiraling downward, losing himself in alcohol and self-loathing. Until he meets a strange woman on the streets of Inverness, and for the first time feels a stirring of something beyond his own wretched existence. Does she bring hope...or death?