Gabriel Reynolds and his stunning red-haired wife Eleanor have settled happily into married life at Westshore...or have they? A woman with a loaded gun, a servant with a grudge and a buccaneering Irish sea captain seem intent on rocking the boat. When Caroline Hodgeson makes what her ex fiancé Gabriel sees as an unsuitable match, it sets off a chain of events which will change all their lives. And not for the better. Enigmatic Captain Padraic Turner and beautiful Bryony Swift, a new servant at Westshore, stir up unexpected feelings of envy and mistrust, suspicion and doubt. Gabriel soon sees the calm waters he'd anticipated have turned squally. Every day the tide seems to wash more problems to his door. Even when a happy announcement is made Gabriel's longed for settled home life looks set to be wrecked by forces beyond his control. Can his constant lady help him steer a course to safe harbour? Or will she abandon ship when the seas turn rough?