She was India Catherine Carey, an eighteen-year-old English beauty betrothed to a man she did not love, a helpless girl aboard a sinking ship in a storm-wracked sea.

He was Christopher Barnett, the nobleman India's father had unjustly condemned to death years before, the dark-haired captain of the smuggler's ship that was to rescue her.

Now fate had delivered India into her enemy's arms...into hands that left trails of fire across her softest flesh. His prisoner and hostage, she vowed to fight his kisses, but her traitorous senses surrendered to his touch. For Christopher planned to ruin Sir William Carey by taking his daughter in marriage - while India found herself yearning for the sweetest, most shameful submission of all...