Grace Cooper, still reeling from her mother's death, ponders her single parent's final words-a plea for forgiveness. From unopened letters sent twenty years before, she discovers that her father is not dead, as she had been told, but owns a prosperous sugar plantation in Jamaica-and he doesn't even know she exists. Eager to find her father and begin a new life with him, Grace sails to Jamaica, leaving her family and her long-time suitor, Dr. Ethan Boyd, in Charleston. After losing the documents proving her parentage out at sea, Grace is faced with adapting to a strange, new culture and the...