Gwen Morgan, young widow single mother, seeks shelter for her daughter, at the house of the local shipbuilder. She is weak and sickly, and has pinned all hope on the elder Dawson's and unknowingly on their son, Lance. At the death of her husband, after the death of their son and twin to their remaining daughter, Gwen, alone, wracked with illness and with nothing to her name, makes the only choice she feels she has. As the Age of Sail is starting to...