The bride herself was hard pressed to recognise the woman who stood naked as the day she was born, reciting her wedding vows to a charming rogue of a sea captain who was her only change to avoid charges of treason. Still, a prim, proper widow has her limits, even during wartime, and the day the towering black-haired Captain Bruce MacGregor tested the uncharted waters of passion churning below the surface of her well-ordered existence, Lydia Masters was lost.He must have been at sea too long to agree to marry a woman just to save her pretty hide, but temptation was his undoing. But this daring privateer hadn't survived twenty skirmishes against the British navy to be beaten by a prickly, hot-headed female. But heaven help him, he was not prepared for a wife like Lydia - or the perilous adventure that lay ahead when war rips them apart...And she dares the unthinkable to prove the defiant glory of a woman's love.