Can a man accept mercy when it feels more like a curse than a blessing? When captured rebel Scotsman Alex MacKinnon is granted the king's mercy-- transport across the Atlantic Ocean and exile to the colony of North Carolina--he's indentured as a blacksmith to Edmund Carey, prosperous owner of Severn Plantation. The arrangement devastates the Scot, who mourns the life he lost and finds life on a slave plantation intolerable. Unwittingly, Alex...