"Samara O'Neill dreamed only of adventure when she hid herself aboard her brother's schooner bound for France. But as they ran the wartime blockade, the naive beauty came face-to-face with the consequences of her rash behavior, for she soon found herself a prisoner of the dangerous British privateer, Captain Reese Hampton. Trapped in a maelstrom of divided loyalties and growing desire, Samara and Reese struggled with a love that neither wanted, yet neither would deny, as the gathering storms of war threatened to destroy the gentle peace they had found in each other's arms." Story begins in 1812.