Boston Harbor, 1775. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, has boarded a ship carrying ammunition and gold into a country on the knife’s edge of war. When one of the ship’s boys turns out to be a lovely girl with a dead-shot aim, Sparhawk finds himself a hostage aboard a Rebel privateer. Before Boston became a powder keg, Sarah Ward was poised to escape the stigma of being a pirate’s daughter by marrying one of Salem’s most successful merchants. Now branded a pirate herself, Sarah will do what she must to secure her family’s safety and her own future, even if that means pitting herself against James Sparhawk—the one man she cannot resist.