Elizabeth Torn is a respectable, witty, sharp tongued 17 year old Lady of Landborough who's only dream is to see her elder sister Beatrice become the first female captain of the Gibb Rogers, their father's ship, and to be married to Emet Berret, her crush's eldest brother. So when she hears her sister's dreams will be thwarted by an arranged marriage to the Lord William McKinnon, the least favorite Gentleman of Landborough, she devises a plan that will save her sister from this ill fate. A plan that will save her family and destroy her life forever.