Annis is the 19 year old Queen of the West. Still grieving for her murdered mother and haunted by self doubt, she worships her hero from the distant past: "Kiffan the Defiant", who fought a brave and daring war of resistance against the invasion of Scotland by the Vikings. King James has gone South to London and the Highland Clans are at each other's throats. Can Annis be the Warrior Queen that Scotland needs to unite her people? The powerful and influential "Laird of the McDonalds" throws his all behind this reluctant hero in a bid to save the Highlands from self destruction.