Spinster Thea Cabot has long since given up her dream of getting married and having a family. Shamed for life when her fiancé Isaac Prescott left her at the altar, she spent the past four years caring for her younger sisters and an aging father. Now they are all gone. To make matters worse, her beloved city of Savannah, Georgia is overrun by British troops, and it looks as though they are here to stay. Honoring her father’s dying wish, Thea boards a merchantman carrying a secret Patriot message for a contact in Baltimore, but imagine her shock when the ship is soon captured by an American Privateer, captained by the very man who ruined her life.