A neo-Victorian tale of adventure and love that travels from Paris across the seas. Aristide Durant, a young naturalist, must escape France armed only with his mentor's journals after being caught in an illicit love affair. These journals hold the key to a new life, if he can learn to navigate his way to the unchartered island they describe. With the seas as tempestuous as the love he escapes with, can Aristide learn to look beyond his scientific journals and follow his heart?