A story of desperate immigrates looking for adventure, advancement, love, and most of all, a sense of belonging, in the New World.
London, 1763: Gifted musician and medical apprentice Michael Shea is living rough after being blackballed from working as a surgeon''s assistant. Not only does Michael lose his gig playing fiddle in a tavern, he also is framed for the murder of a tavern patron visiting from colonial Virginia. Worse, Michael realizes his ladylove wasn''t interested in true love. He was just a divertissement.
Heartbroken and out of options, Michael and his friend Danny escape the turmoil by shipping out on the misnamed brig The Delight as lowly indentured servants. On board are forty-eight other desperate souls-everyday people risking their lives to immigrate to the wilds of America, hoping for a better life in the New World where they can break free of a rigid class system, prejudice, and poverty. Michael-s medical skills prove crit
