Beautiful Lady Kara Melisnade falls hopelessly in love with her dashing Castilian suitor, Sancho Cortez de Rodriguez. Young and inexperienced, she willingly agrees to be his and trustingly sets out across the seas to his Spanish Homeland.
But in the savage land the formidable Duque de Braganzia discovers her, recognises her beauty and makes here his captive. Proud bearer of the crest of the legendary Inca firebird, fierce champion of his people, with looks to rival a Greek god's and a temper to match Kara's own, he represents a challenge to her passionate nature... which she will find hard to resist...