Eighteen year old Desiree Chandelle has yet to experience her first taste of romance or love. Captain Stephen Colter is worldly and yet, his heart has never been touched. He takes her innocence but she steals his heart and from this explosive beginning, Stephen has no doubt that in Desiree, he has found his destiny. But it will take all his wits to keep at bay, the evil that is determined to take her from him. And all his patience to wait... for Desiree to grow up and accept that the love he is offering, will never waiver and never fail. Their saga takes them from Rouen France, to the colonies of America, to Somerset Bermuda and the Spanish Main where they find an unlikely ally in the legendary pirate Captain Red Legs Greaves and his crew of outlaws. But in the end it will still come down to one man and his battle to transform Love's Vengeance to pure Love.