18th Century England
Hester Roon was the bastard daughter of the scullery maid at the Fleece Inn, and a serving girl herself-until her master commanded her presence in his chambers. To escape from him, she ran away and joined London's sprawling underworld-until she was caught. cruelly convicted and transported to a strange, slave-run sugar plantation in the West Indies. There she found the only man who dared to challenge her wild, untamed spirit...
Hester Roon was the bastard daughter of the scullery maid at the Fleece Inn, and a serving girl herself-until her master commanded her presence in his chambers. To escape from him, she ran away and joined London's sprawling underworld-until she was caught. cruelly convicted and transported to a strange, slave-run sugar plantation in the West Indies. There she found the only man who dared to challenge her wild, untamed spirit...