On the Shores of a Savage Eden... They found each other-William Pollard, deserter from a British warship bound for Australia and Tairata, the beautiful golden-skinned Maori princess who would betray her tribe to love a blue-eyed stranger. Together they embarked on a perilous journey across a land without bandaries, without law...a primitive world as yet untouched by the weapons and ways of the white man. Speaking the eternal language of survival and desire, they came together from the opposite ends of the earth to build a bold and glorious empire, to make a cruel and bounteous land their own.

They came as outcasts to the shores of a savage paradise...and stayed to build an empire. William Pollard, the English adventurer who traded his heritage for the tattoos of a Maori chieftain. And Jessica Spencer, whose unyielding code of honor and rebel spirit made he a bond servant in a new Land. Exile brought them together. Destiny made them one. Together they defied their enemies and the fury of unbridled nature to turn the edge of the unknown into an outpost of an empire...and to build a future on the distant shores of a wilderness paradise.