Celina MacNeill, daughter of Malcolm, Laird of Craig Tor, to be sold to the highest bidder... For Celina it all seems quite unbelievable - yet the auction is as real as the atrocities she has witnessed at Culloden, the defeat of her prince, Charles Stuart, and her transportation to the West Indies. Her final humiliation is to be owned by Captain Nicholas Benedict, whose reputation as a privateer leaves her in little doubt that she is to be subjected to his basest whims. But the Captain has another fate in store for her and Celina soon finds that willing servitude can be even better than freedom!