When Beatrix Chalmers accepts a nursing position at the isolated Hearthorne Manor in 1870, she believes she's found professional opportunity and escape from her reduced circumstances. Instead, she discovers she's been marked since childhood for transformation...
Callen Marsher has always dreamed of leaving home and going on an adventure. When a mysterious old sailor arrives and offers Callen that chance, he jumps on the opportunity without asking the right questions---or thinking of the consequences.