In gangland London, Maura Ryan is queen...
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's
Twenty-year-old Phoebe Dymond, a trained herbalist & midwife, boards the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica & an arranged marriage. Incidents on board provoke clashes between Phoebe & the ship's surgeon, Jowan Crossley. But, their professional antagonism turns to mutual respect & a deepening attraction.