It is 1740 and when Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, is offered work in the bustling port of Harwich, as a maid, she leaps at the chance. 15-year old Luke is in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy and he is press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined, and when they collide the consequences are astonishing and irrevocable…