A novel about a young woman torn between passion and duty of honor. Amanda Tremaine's father, a respected naval officer, was wrongly accused of treason and sentenced to death. Before his execution, he gives his only daughter a difficult task to clear his name and find the real traitor. Her investigation leads her to the handsome and enterprising captain Sir Jonathan Everly - and... the disastrous discovery that the man to whom she is attracted is one of the men who sentenced her father to death.