Captain Ian O'Manion is a man with three names and a perilous past.... As Ian O'Malley, he's wanted by the English. He's wanted by the French as Jean Delacorte. When he wins The Oaks, a Maryland horse farm, he takes a new name for his new life...until the past catches up to him, with a vengeance. Ian returns to The Oaks with a festering gunshot wound, fractured bones, and a broken spirit. Haunted by abuses suffered in a Jamaican prison, devoid of hope after his botched escape, he believes that he's come home to die. Elsbeth Gordon is an indentured servant with dangerous secrets of her own .... A young woman of power, Beth talks to trees, communicates with animals, and practices magick alone. When healing the Captain means sharing her secrets, Beth has no choice but to risk being burned as a witch. The psychically gifted beekeeper sees the promise of their future in his eyes...if they can survive an old enemy and an ancient evil that threaten to destroy them both. Written for ages 18+.