Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he deserted twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to poor business in Restoration London. But will Alinor and her family sell out to Sir James? Meanwhile in New England, Alinor's brother Ned, who rebelled against the Crown, cannot find justice in the New World, as the King's revenge stretches across the Atlanic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the native Americans.