In Cornwall, a dangerous world of passions and intrigue await Hedra St Neot. She agrees to help her brother, Kit, to run his Cornish inheritance: a wild and beautiful estate at Mellin Cove. But will she stay to help handsome fisherman, Jem Pentreath, protect the local community from her rogue uncle's band of cut-throat smugglers? Or will she finally agree to marry Sir Edward Tremaine, the rich mine owner who is besotted with her?