With the wind-swept pinnacles of the Scottish highlands towering above him, Angus Fraser turns the last shovel of earth on his parents final resting place. Heartbroken, his anger raging, he swears an oath to avenge the slaughter of his family and with that vow, is honor-bound to find and punish the vrieg-buit responsible for the deaths of his kin. Inexperienced, he sets out on his journey of vengeance and is befriended by a retired soldier of fortune and his beautiful daughter. Swept up in a tempest of burgeoning love and visceral hatred that will carry him across continents and seas, his old life is soon nothing more than a memory. Blood oaths come at a price, he finds, as he rides the wild winds in search of his destiny.