At the Forfar Feein Market beautiful and intelligent Rowena MacFarlane is hired by Angus Campbell to help his wife, Lizzie, with her small sons. But Rowena affects more than the running of the household. Four men love her in their different ways and she loves them in return, Angus, her employer, wild Marek, the Irish gypsy who grew up with her, Tam Laird, the horseman, and Matthew Gray, the gambler, who lives his life on the throw of a dice. Only one is the father of Rowena's daughter. Only one has Rowena's heart.