Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril, while in the south, Rollo, the man Lassair loves, find his life in danger while on a mission for King William when disaster strikes.
Psychic Lassair finds the body of a young woman, and becomes involved in the search for the killer. Suspicion points to the brother of the woman who is about to become Lassair's sister-in-law!
Apprentice healer Lassair learns that a distant relative was brutally murdered by a red-bearded giant in search of an unidentified object he was unable to locate, a situation that puts her entire family at risk.