Eilid* Stuart is tall, blond with laser-like blue eyes, deadly with a rifle and, at 21, is the only female deer stalker in Scotland. In January of 1959 she witnesses an airplane crash in a snowstorm in a remote part of Glen Torridon. She rescues an infant boy, the sole survivor, who is returning with his mother to Los Angeles having gone through a serious heart operation carried out by a famous London surgeon. Believing the child is orphaned, and because of her unfortunate relationships with men