Hidden in the shadows of a Scottish river bank in the winter of 1767, a young woman watches a figure emerging from the icy water. Lizzie Hallim has never seen been so close to a man before, but her excitement is tinged with fear, for the man is a slave, and she is helping him to escape. From that moment on, in the Old World and the New, their destinies will become irrevocably entwined.
"Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines of Scotland, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzi Hallim who is trapped in her owen kind of hell. Two restless young people, separated by politics and position, bound by their passionated search for a place called freedom...." ("Compelling." San Francisco Chronicle)