Wild and beautiful Clonmara in County Wicklow is a fitting home for the Blodmores. Handsome, reckless, as spirited as the horses they breed, they are blithely indifferent to their poverty.

          Only Charlotte, last of the direct line, has a cool head beneath her fiery Blodmore hair. It is she who, disposessed like a gypsy, carves out a new life for herself in the dusty heat of Spain.

          By marriage, she becomes Dona Carlota, part of a great sherry dynasty and protege of the mysterious "Spanish woman" her grandfather once loved. But always in the background is the memory of the rolling acres of Clonmara, and the man who took her inheritance – and her love…