Powerful enemies tried to destroy the life of the beautiful Shimaine O'Hearn, overnight turning a wealthy English heiress into a powerless servant of a shipbuilder from the New World, Gage Thornton. Perhaps it is there, in the distant forests of Virginia, where Gage’s secluded house stands, in the powerful embrace of this lonely man, tormented by the pain of the past, that Shimaine is about to find unexpected happiness.