Betrayed and nursing a broken heart, Emily returns to the Borders to try to start again. Setting off for her first day in a new job and starting a new life, she is plunged back in time to the turbulent days of the medieval Borderlands. No longer Emily, but now addressed as Lady Isabel Gillhaven. She is to be married? Who is the enigmatic 'Quick' Jack Armstrong? Why is she here and how can she get back home? She wants to go home, doesn't she?