Dashing ship's captain Bryce Tremaine sails for colonial Virginia in 1773 to seek revenge on the ne'er-do-well aristocratic father who raped and abandoned Bryce's young mother in England.. Rich, beautiful, willful American Brittany Chambers vows not to marry; then she meets dashing, possessive English aristocrat Bryce Tremaine, who finds the task of taming her almost as compelling as the mission of vengeance that brings him to the colonies