The Legend of Lucy Bennett

Lucy Bennett's life has always belonged to someone else, her father. As the illegitimate daughter of Governor Bartholomew Bennett, a high-power aristocrat, she has been hidden from the world, locked indoors, stripped of choices, and raised under the constant threat of scandal. Bartholomew's fear of scandal is unrelenting, and the prison he builds around Lucy slowly becomes more dangerous than revealing the truth.

When Bartholomew is appointed Governor of the English province of Barbados, Lucy is uprooted and thrown into a new world with the same strict rules. After she ventures on a secret outing on the island, she meets Oliver Augusta, a disgraced nobleman, turned renegade sailor and thief, whose charm and wit overshadow his turbulent past. Their connection is immediate and undeniable. Oliver offers Lucy a taste of the freedom she so desperately craves when he proposes that the two uncover the hidden treasure of the late Princess Grace of Spain, a legend that has obsessed Lucy for years.

Drawn into Oliver's hunt, Lucy steps into a world of secrets, sin, and scandal that threatens to unravel the fragile life she is beginning to build. When their pasts catch up to them, both Lucy and Oliver must choose between retreating to the comfort of the life they once knew or risking everything for a future they desperately want.