The Siren's Call

In 1874, women were not free to have ambitions beyond house and home, but Essie did. She reveled in her profession, digging in the dirt in the Caribbean for relics of a lost people, and her odd marriage to a beautiful man who indulged her desires. But all that changed with the arrival of a letter. Her husband dead, her career over, and her future darkened by a betrothal to her former brother-in-law, a monster twice her age, Lady Vanessa Everly's life has taken a tragic turn. Summoned back to London, she must drop everything dear to her and travel alone across the Atlantic toward a fate worse than death-confinement. Her only comfort is found the company of the ship's captain. A mysterious and intriguing man, Clark becomes a dream she is too afraid to have. Can every fate be changed?