Troubled by her mother's recent death, sixteen-year-old Grace is forced to leave her beloved Canada to travel to England aboard the Empress of Ireland with her father and his new fianc e, Harriet. While aboard the ship, Grace is ignored by her father and befriends Paden, son of the ship's assistant chief steward. Grace soon discovers that Paden is part of a ship theft ring and is planning on stealing silver bars belonging to her father's employer...