San Miguel

The schooner from Santa Barbara arrives at the tiny, desolate island on New Year''s Day, 1888. As the trunks are unloaded onto the wet sand, thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters looks at the cliffs falling away into the churning sea. This is the first day of her new life on San Miguel.

Joined by her husband, a fiercely possessive Civil War veteran who will take over the operation of the sheep ran...