Striving to live up to the promise Master Walter Sinclair made at his dying father's bedside, he struggles to balance his newly inherited responsibilities of overseeing Stratton Estate and his secret passion for Jessie, a young beautiful Scottish servant girl. As Walter and Jessie's love affair intensifies it becomes difficult to keep their intimacy discreet, especially since Jessie is under constant scrutiny of her judgmental peers. Family secrets begin to unravel that force Jessie to make sacrificial decisions that ultimately threaten to destroy not only their love, but could ruin all of Stratton Castle.