With two years of poor harvest, the life Amelia Cranshaw was born into is changing, and not in the direction she’d choose. Scorning a marriage arranged by her father and meetings he’s started holding with an attorney she distrusts, Amelia turns to teach to change the course of her life. But she soon learns it won’t be easy, especially with a man like Roland Duvall determined to have her hand. 

Marked in town by a trial in his past, attorney Elias Burke tries to move forward with his life with the one client who’ll hire him in all of colonial New York. The case seems simple enough until he meets Amelia Cranshaw who opposes him every step of the way. But when she gives him a new case that could open up old wounds he’d rather leave untouched, will he help seal the fate society’s expectations have for her or will he help her achieve a new one?

She wants a say in her future. He could be the reason she won’t have it. 

Abigail Thatcher is more than content living on her family’s farm in Massachusetts until the war she’s only heard about reaches her town. With her home lost, she leaves what she knows behind determined to find a new future while providing aid in Washington’s army. But will she be able to once she learns Garrett Ward, a man aboard one of the ships that fired on her town, is a camp prisoner she’s given charge of?

Orphaned at a young age, Garrett Ward owes everything he has to the Royal Navy. He dreams of becoming a captain of his own ship and is well on his way until the unexpected happens. Now captive to an army he little respects with the exception of one person—a person he’d never imagined he’d see again; he works to somehow make amends with Abigail while also having to face his past.

As Garrett works to find peace over his father’s murder and his own captivity, will he also be able to make restitution with Abigail for the destruction of her town and will she be able to accept the “olive branch” he’s extended?