In the wild grandeur of the Scottish Highlands, deer-stalking becomes more than sport: it is a test of skill, pride, and belonging. Lord Aberfeldie and his son Allan, the Master of Aberfeldie, return to the corries with memories of India, old family expectations, and a future shadowed by inheritance, while the polished English guest Hawke Holcroft unsettles the household with his easy manners and dangerous attentions. Allan, once bound for Olive Raymond, finds her transformed into a beautiful young woman whose charms now draw rival notice, and his suspicion of Holcroft only deepens as the hunt and the conversation expose the fault lines between Scottish tradition and English polish. At the shooting lodge and later at Dundargue, the social field grows just as tense. Holcroft's sporting failure, Lady Aberfeldie's marriage schemes, and the quiet love between Eveline and the penniless Evan Cameron all reveal a world ruled by rank, money, and concealed feeling. Amid pipes, song, ruined clachans, and Highland ceremony, the novel blends romance, family conflict, and cultural change into a story of jealousy, loyalty, and the painful cost of desire. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.