Feared as a demon because of his two different colored eyes, Highlander, Onyx MacKeefe is known as a madman. While celebrating his birthday one cold night at a Lowland pub, he meets a bonnie Englishwoman who says she is searching for a murderer of the past. And when his own mother is suspected, things take a turn for the worse.Lady Loveday de Lacy, known as Lovelle, comes looking for a murderer and also her mother's Book of Hours that has been stolen. She is desperate to find it, needing the mystical charms at the back of the book. And when a rugged Highlander takes her captive in order to secure his mother's life, she oddly finds herself attracted to him.Can a proper Englishwoman and a Scottish madman find the strength and will to work together before impending doom overtakers them?(Onyx is the brother from the girls in the Daughters of the Dagger Series.)