More than a century has passed since the Salem witch trials, and the little Puritan village in Massachusetts has become the wealthiest town in America, where a new breed of men has built a new kind of aristocracy.

He is a damaged man looking for a reason to go on living.

It is 1803, and Captain Isaac McCallister, merchant prince, has come home to Salem after five harrowing years of slavery in Algiers. His return from the grave has rattled Salem, particularly the family of his dead step-brother, three women living in genteel poverty on his estate. But from the moment he sets eyes on Eleanor Hampton, Isaac sees a path out of the darkness, back to the land of the living.

She is an independent woman looking for the courage to love.

Eleanor Hampton is a gifted artist and a hidebound Yankee, struggling to support her mother and sister as a painter. When Captain McCallister makes an astonishing offer of marriage, accepting seems like a practical matter for a woman born to the poor relations. But their wedding sets dark forces out of the past in motion, leading to a stunning betrayal and a brutal murder. And as her growing passion for her enigmatic husband consumes her, Eleanor realizes she will go to any length to save Isaac from the hangman.

Heart’s Blood is the first book in a new romance trilogy from RWA award-winning author Alice Von Kannon. Three love stories, bound by family, play out across three nations in conflict – Jeffersonian America, Napoleonic France and Regency Britain.

"An engrossing tale of navigating new love and finding one’s way back home after a perilous journey." - Kirkus Reviews