Catherine Gibson is a young society girl with a secret. It is the height of the Napoleonic Wars and she is suddenly summoned from England to her estranged father's home in Jamaica. Her passage is secured aboard a British naval ship commanded by the darkly handsome Captain John Knight. Secrecy and danger mark every step of the turbulent journey, challenging everything Catherine knows about her family – and herself. Can she survive the truth behind her father’s secrets? And will Captain Knight’s powerful presence be her ruin – or her salvation?