This is a hard-hitting novel set during the revolutionary period of the Americas. Tyson Grant, fresh from England, arrives in Jamaica as Assistant to the Governor General. Quickly he finds love and unexpected adventure that carries him to Colonial America. There, he and his friends experience tyranny when captured by invading British forces. Escape leads back to Jamaica, where death is lurking everywhere as he and his friends attempt to rescue his love from revolting Jamaican slaves led by the cunning Serwak. Even during the violence of the era, love will not be denied.