Heartsick and desperate to return home to America, Georgina Anderson boards the Maiden Anne disguised as a cabin boy - never dreaming she'll be forced into intimate servitude at the whim of the ship's irrepressible captain, James Malory. The black sheep of a proud and tempestuous family, the handsome expirate once swore no woman alive could entice him into matrimony. But on the high seas his resolve becomes weakened by a fierce passion - and by this high-spirited beauty whose love of freedom and adventure rivals his own...