Deal, Kent. 1811. The heart of the British smuggling business. \"Deal is a godforsaken town where the streets are ruled by villains . . .\" The Lennicker sisters live in a cottage nestled amongst the counting houses, shops and inns, where the smugglers plot and the seamen drink....

Deal, Kent, 1812 Eighteen-year-old Winnie Lennicker yearns for a peaceful life as a respectable married woman. However, when she becomes involved in her family\"s free-trading operations and caught by the Revenue, she is sent before the magistrates....

Kent 1815 Her heart led her to him, but will loyalty be enough to make her stay . . . When the beautiful but naive Grace Lennicker falls for Isaiah Feasey, son of a rival smuggling family and owner of a local tavern, her sisters try to intervene....