Rothgar, once Lord of Langwald, stood humbled before Lady Maria de Courson. In her Norman hands lay the life of this tawny-maned Saxon warrior, come home to the land he loves but no longer ruled. Yet in Maria`s lonely struggle to save her enfeebled brother`s newly granted estate, and to tame its people and raise the castle walls, only Rothgar could help. She set him free, and in doing so, chained her soul...