England, 1800. The daughter of an Oxfordshire country doctor, Caroline Fairbanks, arrives in London accompanied by her handsome but dissolute fianc , Captain Roger Soames. But Caroline quickly sours on Roger's boorish social circle, which includes the arrogant Lord Jack Willoughby, who pursues her despite her engagement to his friend. Meanwhile, Irish-American shipwright Declan Fitzpatrick has delivered a newly-built ship to its English owners and is eager to return to his Philadelphia home. When Declan intervenes in a violent quarrel at a society party involving Caroline, he becomes her reluctant protector and that changes their futures in a way neither could ever have imagined.
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