When Sarah left her home in North Carolina, she had two goals in mind: get answers about her mother and get her man. Unfortunately, no one seems to want to cooperate.

"Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, and thrice again to make up nine."

After the revelations of her mother's memoir, Sarah is determined to learn everything she can about the mysterious tribe that her mother called the Auld Folk and the three "sisters" who rule them. She wants to uncover the secret that they are guarding and why it threatened her mother's happiness and her life. But their village was hidden for hundreds of years and may prove just as elusive for her. Working side by side with Dermot Sinclair, Sarah embarks on a search across the Highlands and Islands to find her people.

Determined to get her man, Sarah throws temptation in Dermot's way every chance she gets. But something is always holding him back. Meanwhile, Sarah is being pursued relentlessly by Scotland's most eligible bachelor, James Stuart, whose generous gifts and lavish attention may prove hard to resist.

All Dermot wants to do is keep the women he loves safe, but he is torn between Sarah and the needs of his ailing mother. Watching his childhood friend, James attempt to romance the woman he loves may be more than he can take.

Follow Sarah and Dermot as they trace her people through the folklore of Scotland, but can they find the answers she wants before the Stuart's agenda becomes inevitable?