Summary

Nicole Renard isn't your ordinary woman. She's got more than just looks. She's got an intellectual mind, a knack for fighting (a knife, her weapon of choice), and a determination you don't find much among her type in the 1800s. But there's one thing she hasn't got: a husband. And with her father's death possibly looming in the future, he has commissioned her to find him an heir to take over the business. Along the way, Nicole receives temporary employment from a certain Darius Thornton, a hardened man hungry to undo his past and revolutionize the modern steam ships of America. Nicole knows what she must do for her father, but her heart cannot but help falling for the man who treats her like no one ever has. But, it would never work...would it?