A woman who defies convention.

Disillusioned by her debut experience in London, Priscilla "Priss" Fitch pronounces herself finished with men and returns home to the Cornish coast. And home, with her novel-writing and her ailing father is where she intends to stay.

A man who must fight to regain her love.

Wearied by his years as a British intelligence officer, Henry Oliver also returns to the Cornish coast, where he soon reawakens in Priss the passion that she thought she would never feel again.

Now their entwined destinies sweep them across the ocean as Henry must return to the sea he hates to rescue the woman he loves from the pirate Dos Sebastián's brutal clutches. Dos Sebastián doesn't want ransom. He wants revenge on Priss's retired Admiral father. But he's dealt with Henry Oliver before—and he soon realizes that Henry wants revenge as well.