Could the legend possibly come true?

Strangely enough, her fiance's assurance that he'd have married her even if she'd gone blind, only increased Anna's prewedding doubts. So she fled to her island cottage in Scotland.

But St. Morag's in summer was different than St. Morag's now - bleak, deserted for the winter. And the one other resident, Paul Peralta, a dark mysterious Gypsy of a man, disturbed and excited Anna.

For the island had a legend about dark men. If a girl answered their call, she was forever enslaved!