Young Western Victorian women were always taught to be proper--quiet, small, conserved, and hardworking. But for Eliza Lynch, this lifestyle held nothing but confinement. Her days were always the same: Wake up, eat, help her mother around the house, eat, more work, eat, and go to bed. All she wanted was to break away and make her own mark on the world. Gabriel Sinnet's world was quite the opposite. As the son of state-wide infamous smuggler and gun slinger, James Sinnet, his life was always spent on the run. He wanted nothing more than to be a normal young man: to go to school and learn and have a normal life. There was no hope for either of their dreams to become a reality. But that was before their paths crossed, and sent the pair on a road that neither of them ever expected they'd take.