When Jamie King Grant, the travelling man, gave up his wandering life to wed Maggie McKenzie, their small farm had laughingly been re-named King's Croft. There, they raised their family - straitlaced Nellie, lovesick Murn, lively Mary - and Evelyn, their youngest daughter. Gifted and loving, Evelyn found herself torn between two different worlds and two very different men. Johnny Burns, a child of the farmtouns like herself, had been her first love. Gillan Forbes was the son of the big house, and heir to the Lands of Rothiedrum. Neither man made any secret of his love for her - and the time was coming when Evelyn would have to make a choice...