Thrown into an entirely unfamiliar world of class and race, caught in the tyrannical grip of suffocating English propriety, and set apart by wholly nonconformist passions of heart, the now orphaned Emilie Forthyn must fend for herself in the midst of cruel intentions, cold relations, and calculated enmity. She must stand alone upon heart-deep convictions about what it means to be human amidst slave-trading noblemen and repressive noblewomen. When...