An attempt on her life forces Catherine Amberly to flee her manor house for the role of cabin boy on a ship bound for the Caribbean. But the threats she thought left behind follow her into the heat of the tropics, and soon she faces a more potent danger in the form of Ransom Duprey. When she finds herself falling for the privateer captain, Cat abandons ship for the life of a lady once more.

Ransom has his own enemies-and suspicions about the beautiful young woman in the Barbados ballroom. Although they've never met, she seems to know him better...