Stephen, the drunkest, most womanizing member of the de Burgh family, has everything he could ever ask for. But his father orders him to leave during a blizzard to escort Mistress Brighid to see her inheritance. The job is annoying enough, but to make it worse, the lady in question hides her hair in a wimple and wears a perpetual scowl. The two can't possibly understand each other, and yet a passion akin to destiny constantly burns between them.
It was true?her father was dead. After all the difficulties they surmounted, they finally arrive at her castle, only to find it utterly wasted. Her father has been killed over his research on alchemy and the Philosopher's Stone. A menacing shadow approaches Brighid and Stephen as they search for his murderer! When Brighid sees the lengths Stephen will go to protect her, her feelings for him intensify?she can no longer hide them!