As the ship Charity sails from Bristol, England, in 1638 two very different women make the perilous voyage to Lord Baltimore's new colony in the wilderness on the far shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Margaret Brent is of aristocratic birth and determined to make a life for herself. Anicah Sparrow is a teenaged pickpocket kidnapped and transported to the a New World in need of laborers. In the rowdy, irreverent new settlement, both women will find a future they could not have imagined.