1660, Britain
When Gillian Lancaster's parents are killed in a carriage accident, she cannot inherit her beloved castle home, the fortress holding is granted to Selrick Calidore as compensation for his bountiful piracy tendered to the British Crown. Feisty Gillian wars against her unjust plight, coveting to remain the mistress of the castle; in the course, however, she's enticed by mysterious yearnings for the castle's proprietor, Selrick. Her life, alas, takes a dastardly spin into villainy when Gillian's kidnapped by Selrick's vilest adversary, the cutthroat pirate, Captain Blake Morvane, who hunts blood revenge against Selrick for a vicious and murderous attack he waged aboard one of Blake's ships. Imprisoned by Blake, an infamous corsair who's said to be hideously depraved and unconquerable in his bloodlust, Gillian's held captive in Blake's quarters aboard his ship, Poseidon's Revenge. Endlessly barraged by Blake's attempts at seducing her to lusty wantonness for him, Gillian's drawn to surrender her battle against him and her ravenously yearning heart; she cannot deny that her merciless desires for him are tempting her to ache for Blake's lustful kiss and his sizzling caresses. Is it possible for one woman to alter the terrifying destinies of two blood-starved pirates? Will Gillian's love for the pirate who captures her heart entice the end to a manically bloody feud, or will she, and the pirate she loves, die at the sword wielded by the man who will never win her love, the man who may savagely destroy everything at the bloodthirst he forges in the rage of wicked vengeance?
