Love. War. Cruelty. Passion. A young Brazilian woman sails to Portugal with her widowed mother, but on the way, they learn their destination has been overrun by Napoleon's troops.

W.R. Woodbury was born and raised in Canada, but spent much of his young adult life travelling to Greece, Italy, Spain, England, Germany, and Australia. He has been writing on and off for forty years and once sent a few youthful novels to UK publishers but given his peripatetic lifestyle at the time, it was impossible to follow through. When he returned permanently to Canada twenty years ago, he made forays into painting and photography while working as a hotel manager. He has also worked as a librarian, forest-fire fighter, quantity surveyor, banker, tour guide, night auditor, taxi driver, landscaper, postman, ranch hand, porn actor, stained glass artisan, draftsman, and courier driver. He began writing seriously again in 2018.