The sway of playful palm trees and never-ending sunshine seem like a fantasy compared to the smog and filth of 18th century London. Thrilled for a new life in the exotic West Indies, privileged seventeen-year-old Tessa Monroe eagerly embraces her father's reassignment to the fledgling Caribbean colony of St. Kitts where she can stake her claim as an up-and-coming socialite.But that dream unravels when a hurricane downs their ship the passage from...