"Stand and deliver!" Love and lust, passion and submission, sadism and masochism. Men who take what they desire. Captain Jamey Todhunter, a disgraced army cavalry officer, has done well as a highwayman in 1750s England. Then he meets Sir Michael Taplow, a young aristocratic merchant. Serving as Jamey's submissive apprentice, Michael is drawn slowly into a web of sexual submission and criminal training. When their most daring robbery in London goes very wrong, Michael has to weigh giving his body over to the sexual tortures of the prison warden to save his master, or seeing Jamey hanged. They flee to the American colonies, setting up first as merchants in Boston, then building a horse farm in western Massachusetts. Even in the wilderness, their relationship is threatened by a new unthinkable danger.