Australia, 1800. Isabella O'Shea arrives on a prison boat, just one of hundreds of convicts to be sold as indentured servants in Botany Bay. She hates men. She especially hates the English--and she's about to become the servant of a wealthy, ambitious Englishman, a man called 'Tiger'. A man who has decided to make Isabella his own. But he hasn't counted on her fierce pride or her determination to be free, no matter what the cost.