Bold and beautiful, Storme O'Malley was a legend among America's privateers. Daring with her sword, defiant in her spirit, she was captain, she was captain of the Tempest, the most dreaded pirate ship on the sea. But no man had ever kissed her honeyed lips or touched the secret places that transform a girl into a woman...until handsome, hard-muscled Simon York became her captive.
A powerful Southern landowner, Simon vowed to despise the untamed she-cat who held him prisoner. Yet ignited by her sensuality, touched by her innocence, he couldn't resist her offer of freedom in exchange for a lesson in the art of love...nor could he let her perish when fate swept her toward the hangman's noose. Soon, wanted by authorities on both sides of the sea, Storme and Simon would find themselves fighting imprisonment and an implacable, unscrupulous enemy - for their passionate dreams and the fiery love they shared.