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The Mcleod clan's Princess, Si'leas has been taken hostage by their long hated enemies the MacAlisters.

The enemy are racking her for information leading to the clan's stockhold, where they keep their money for the food they get in return for buying their treatied friends the MacAdies armor for the war they face now.

If Si'leas gives in to the torture, her people will starve. And her kingdom ruined.

Meanwhile back at a farm in The Isle of the Skye, A sheep herder's daughter, named Mai'ri, is left alone after her father dies in the war and her mother taken as a war widow, to help with the injured.

What will she do now with just her and her horse Blai'r? Will she be swallowed up in the face of war looking for her mother, or will she find an even greater cause to leave her lonely home and go out into the midst of a war?