The magnificent saga of a woman swept up by passion and torn between twoloves. The violent sea threw them together only to tear them apart yetagain... Out of a band of violent men, shipwreckers all, came MariannaHarper--a girl so unkempt that her budding beauty barely showed. In the deepfog of the night, she salvaged a delicate prize from the sea--PhillipCourtwright. The most beautiful man she had ever seen. Together they lovedand to protect their love--and lives--they killed. Then, at Marianna's mostdesperate moment, into her life strode a new man, Captain Adam Street. Asmighty as the ships he commanded, as passionate as Phillip was tender, asforceful as the love he gave--a man who swept Marianna up into the tides oflove.