It is 1866, and French commercial relations with Tahiti are heating up. Father, a retired British sailor who built a sugar and coffee bean empire with an entrancing Tahitian woman, has two sons and eight daughters. He knows that only one of his daughters can cement the expansion of the family empire throughout Europe with the only currency that matters in France: family.
Jean-Louis, the only son of a wealthy French merchant, falls in love with a photograph of one of Father's daughters, Aata. He agrees to marry her on the spot. Aata and her guardian, Isabelle Watson, undertake the months-long journey from Tahiti to France aboard the vessel La Lib ration with the dashing Captain Frederick and his alluring First Mate Noah Ostrander to meet and marry Jean-Louis. Inside La Lib ration, readers will discover: - A sweeping 1866 historical romance between Tahiti, the sea, and France