Priscilla Pembroke is the perfect spy-female, forty, and practically invisible. No one would ever suspect a proper American lady of carrying seditious documents that could well become a prelude to war with England. But when her ship is cannonballed to splinters-and she is unable to swim-both her mission to end slavery and her life are about to come to a tragic end. At twenty-five, Camran Slayter is set to become captain of a Royal Navy ship. The scars...