Amid the brooding mountains of Glen Coe and the bleak windswept Rannock Moor, the bitter enmity between the families of the Campbell's and the MacDonald's blazes ever fiercer. Though it is fifty years since that first terrible massacre, Catriona Campbell, daughter of the Laird of Darna, has been taught to fear and hate the black hearted MacDonald's. So when she meets Rorie the 'Red' MacDonald, she is amazed to find that he is not the monster she had always supposed him to be. But how, in the face of her family's implacable opposition, can she ever have the courage to live with the man she loves in that hate ridden atmosphere?