Indulged by her widowed father, headstrong Flora Campbell has grown up wild and unchecked in Regency Edinburgh. When her older sister elopes with a married Italian count, the scandal threatens to blight Flora’s marriage prospects forever. Only one man is prepared to offer his hand to the wayward girl – the Reverend Iain Farquhar, a devout Minister of the Kirk of Scotland.

And Flora soon discovers that for a spirited young lady trying hard to be a dutiful minister’s wife, ‘hand’ can have more meaning than one...