During a hot summer night in July of 1796, a merchant ship leaves on a three-month shipping expedition from Dover, England, to Bombay, India.  A young widow ready to tour England in a fight supporting abolitionism, is abducted and brought aboard the ship.  The captain insists he saved her from a mysterious stranger with deadly intentions, but she questions his true motives.  Her doubts are shattered when her attacker, a man deeply embedded in the slave trade, returns to exact his revenge.  At each port, she is thrust into a world of adventure, intrigue—and danger.  Along the way, she discovers love with the charming captain.  But after she gives him her heart, her past returns to haunt her, jeopardizing the future she has already embraced.


Join Arabelle as she sets sail on the Ecstasy and begins the adventure of a lifetime.