Book #1

Sailing Master Septimus Bolton has spent his life at sea. Now that his ship has been decommissioned at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he has nothing to do but to convalesce at an estate in Yorkshire. Septimus would do anything to get back to sea. Adam Seymour has had to fight for everything he has, from the scholarship that allowed him to attend university to the right to be himself. Now, as tutor to the Duke of Malton's children, he has a comfortable life on an estate far away from ridicule. His goal of starting a school for underprivileged children once his charges outgrow his tutelage seems well within reach. It doesn't matter how hard Septimus fights his feelings for Adam, the two men can't seem to stay away from each other. But when Septimus is offered the chance of a lifetime in the form of the ship he's always wanted to command, he will have to choose between the possibility of lifelong love and the dream that is finally within his reach.