Lani Cameron was shocked to see her "dead" husband stand before her, dirty, disheveled, but very much alive. Having been cruelly shut off from the world for five long years, Bryan had come home, bent on revenge . . . and desperate to pick up living where he'd left off.

But Lani was far from the dependent young woman he'd married, and he'd become an intense, hardened man-a bearded pirate who both scared and thrilled her. His hunger for her was more passionate than ever, yet jealousy and suspicion darkened his heart. Time and torment had made them distant strangers, yet Bryan expected them to live . . . and love . . . as man and wife!