This exquisite love story is set against the colourful backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Pretty and lovable, Stella was an orphan who had been rescued from the cruel grip of the sea and her dead mother`s arms. Anthony was a young midshipman who had fled from his ship to escape the brutality of naval life.

          Together they grew to maturity in the peaceful Davon countryside. And as the years passed, so their love grew…