Englishwoman Raven Whitney had found sanctuary from a waking nightmare when handsome Captain Forrester granted her passage on his ship. Indenturing herself to the brooding captain's fiancée in Virginia seemed a small price to pay for a new life. But Raven's darkest hour had not yet begun. Love was a thing James Forrester had never truly known—or believed in. At least, not until he met the dark-eyed Raven. He'd painstakingly planned his life, down to choosing the proper wife to help him make a place in Colonial politics. Could he now face a future that Raven was forbidden to share?