As one of the fiercest knights in King Edward's service, Holden de Ware has gained increasing favor with the king, and he's been entrusted to form an alliance with the Scots clan of Gavin, and secure the border. But treacherous forces have slain the laird of the Gavin, and Cambria, the laird's daughter and now the leader of the clan, blames Holden for her father's death...