a proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her a man of secrets accused of a terrible crime in a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined in a glorious romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller kathleen e woodwissthe fiery and outspoken adopted daughter of one of englands most formidable women shemaine ohearn has made powerful enemies and now her adversaries have found a way to remove the hotblooded beauty from her life of privilege by falsely convicting shemaine of thievery and sending her in shackles to america where she is to be sold in indentured servitude to the highest bidderin a bustling port city in the colony of virginia she becomes the servant of gage thornton a shipbuilder with a young child in need of a nanny and despite whispered rumors condemning the handsome widower for the untimely death of his wife shemaine cannot ignore her desire for this caring generous and enigmatic stranger who silently aches with his growing need for her even as grave peril reaches out from across a vast ocean to threaten their flowering love