Makepeace Hedley sets out to Plymouth to rescue her young daughter, taken prisoner by the British when sailing home from the rebelling American colonies. Countess Diana Stacpoole, freed by the death of her sadistic husband and determined not to fade into genteel decline, helps the son of an American friend in the same British prison. In the chaos of wartime Plymouth, the two women forge an unlikely friendship while rescuing their loved ones.
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