The sinister League of the Jewelled Men are hatching another deadly conspiracy: their chosen victim one Lord Horatio Glendenning, and the prize his father's estate.
Unaware of the noose tightening around his family and fortune, young Glendenning happens upon a bewitching gypsy maid who absconds with his heart -- and his purse. When an accident throws him at her mercy, Glendenning nevertheless feels obliged to teach cheeky Amy Consett a lesson in honesty, which Amy repays with a few lessons for the lord himself -- in survival, in loyalty, and in courage. Add two quick, proud, and stubborn tempers to their vast difference in social standing, and Amy and Glendenning are clearly a match made somewhere far from heaven.
Suddenly, the dastardly League springs its trap, and Glendenning's true nightmare begins. In a heart-wrenching turn of events, the laws of survival and loyalty demand that Glendenning's own father send his beloved son to the gallows, and that the young Lord Glendenning not only accept his fate, but insist upon it. It is then that Amy's final lesson becomes supremely important.