Emma, the youngest daughter of the great family, cannot find acceptance among the peers of society despite four Seasons of pleasing everyone. She is banished to Inverness to avoid any scandal her anger might cause. Even in Inverness, she is an outsider, for her cousins, including staid and boring Morgan Davies, spend all their days working and thinking, for heaven's sake!
Having survived years of the family's disasters, Morgan likes his quiet life and routine. Emma's excesses and plain speaking disrupt his days. When Emma discovers politics and adopts as her cause women's suffrage, the most outrageous scandal the family has yet to produce threatens to turn Morgan's world inside out.