Young, intelligent, attractive to men, and an heiress—what more could life hold in store for Victoria Strange? But for six weeks, until she is twenty-one, she must be careful, for a large part of her fortune does not come to her before her birthday, and the heirs next in line are greedy and unscrupulous . . .

Victoria flies to Scotland, hoping to hide out in the tiny Highland village of Muirloch, where she once spent happy days with her parents. For a time she finds peace and even romance, in the person of a young Canadian journalist, Neil Hallyard.

Then strange mishaps begin to occur. Victoria's lawyer in New York dies under mysterious circumstances, and strangers have been seen in Muirloch at dead of night. Have her enemies found her? Is Neil the friend he seems to be, or is he too after her fortune?