It's 1796, twenty-two-year old Elizabeth Bartlett has lost her baby, been convicted of a crime she didn't commit, and sent from Dublin to the other side of the world. Will sanity prevail? 

When she's sent to work for James Bryan Cullen Elizabeth waits for him to want more than cleaning and cooking.

Is Cullen the gentle soul he appears to be? In a society that treats her as worthless, should Elizabeth dare to hope?