I've a feeling you'll soon rue this day...These were the fateful words Sarah Markham's father uttered after she threw herself between the convict and the captain's whip. Transported to Australia for crimes against the Crown, Dominic Gallagher had been labelled a troublemaker. But Sarah couldn't bear to see any man flogged to death and insisted her father buy this young Irish rebel and bring him back to their ranch. Soon a forbidden passion begins to blossom between the indentured man and his mistress. A twist of fate will sweep them together amid betrayal and intrigue as a man risks everything for freedom and a woman risks everything for love.