It's 1918, and the world is at war. Lieutenant Lord David Montgomery barely escaped a deadly hand-to-hand encounter in the trenches, and as he lies in the hospital he receives a mysterious visit from a hedgewitch in the dead of night. She curses his battle wounds to never heal until he learns to love and finds love in return. Weak and shellshocked, he is sent home to England, but his war-depleted household is unable to care for him and keep the manor...