After voyaging across the Atlantic Ocean as a stowaway on board Captain Byron Treasure's merchant ship, Marisa's life plan takes a turn when she ends up, not in America as she had expected, but on the northern shores of Canada. In the colony, she finds herself in a new, wild world where she is faced with real dangers - outlaws and bandits included. As the new wife of the captain and a resident of the colony, so different from genteel English society, she must quickly adapt and show her husband and the rest of her world that she is a force to be reckoned with.

More than that, so far, she has not fulfilled her husband's dream of being a father. What will happen if she can't?

When Byron takes Marisa as his wife, he has no idea what he's gotten himself into. Despite his advice, she is a wife who will do exactly what she desires, regardless. When this defiant damsel saves his life and then disappears, he realizes that he has underestimated the spirit of this saucy wench, the woman he's chosen as his wife. Talk about willful!