When Robert Williams, bailiff, sees a chance for some easy money, he has no idea what dramatic chain of events it will set in motion. A ferryman who hasn't paid his taxes, a violent and overbearing landowner, a magistrate with a long-held grievance, the murky underworld of eighteenth-century London, the love of Robert's life in mortal danger. This is a tale of love and loss, of chances taken and missed, of bitter vengeance. Who will prevail?