Kenna Mackenzie is thrown out of home by her guardian for refusing a suitor. When she's down and out she's rescued by a doctor, with whom she falls in love. But he thinks she's a street girl. She knows she had no choice but to return to her guardian, and agrees to marry the Laird of Glenchallon, who is impoverished and wants her only for her fortune. When she gets to his home she discovers that the laird is involved with another. When she returns to Edinburgh she find that her doctor is looking for her.
This is a sentimental and epic story about a young man, injured in the Viewnam War, who returns to Dallas, Texas, in 1964, and begins rebuilding his life. Set against the rock and roll era of the early 1960’s, when casual sex and recreational drugs w