���� He was her husband, her lover, the pirate who seized her body, then stole her heart. Lady Catherine Aldley fled England to make a home with the infamous Jonathan Hale in Carolina.�But their perfect life was shattered when Cathy was summoned to England to her ailing father, and discovered that her marriage to Jonathan was a sham.�He was a wanted man, one step from the gallows.�The only way she could save him was to wed her despised cousin, to let Jonathan think she had betrayed their love.
���� With a price on his head and vengeance in his soul, Jon Hale led a mutiny aboard the prison ship Cristobel and recaptured his faithless wife.�Cathy could rile his blood as no other. The fire in her eyes infuriated and beguiled him.�Cathy said she hated him, yet melted at his touch even as Jon tried to despise what he most desired.�Then fate threatened to part them forever and Jon risked his life to rescue the woman he could not live without��