Equisite, blue-eyed Susan had been alone and solitary all her life. Abandoned by her mother, she knew nothing of her father. Yet now her dying mother had summoned Susan to a weird, wild island. And Susan was afraid. WIth her last breath, the bitter, once beautiful woman gave Susant the truth about her father, leaving her a legacy of fierce hate and a fortune founded on shipwreck and plunder. FOr the timid girl, it was the beginning of a strange and often dangerous quest across an untamed island—to regain her rightful name, to find the love her heart had never known.