Emer Nugent`s saga continues as she and what remains of her family after their perilous crossing of the Atlantic on a coffin ship now face a whole new set of challenges once they reach Canada. Emer and Dalton are more in love than ever, but his stunning betrayal of Emer and everyone aboard the Pegasus has the most horrific consequences for them all. Dalton is powerless to stop the cascade effect his unwitting actions have set in motion, for his father Frederick Randall is nothing if not determined to run his son`s life. Frederick`s blind ambition has set its sights on the Lyndon Shipwork`s steam fleet, which he plans to get his hands on by forcing Dalton to marry the voluptuous but coldly calculating Madeleine Lyndon. Emer and her family are caught in an epic battle of wills as she and her family are condemned by Frederick to the hellish quaratine station at Grosse Ile. Once there, every moment brings with it yet another threat to their survival. Can Dalton get his father to see reason before it`s too late? Or will Emer and Dalton`s love become just another casualty of the Famine, and Frederick`s war with his son?