Never underestimate the power of a pirate . . .Captain James Steele is duty bound to capture the privateer Scarlet Night and bring her rebellious crew to England to hang. Then he will leave his majesty's service make an upstanding marriage and join the landed gentry. But the winds of fate are blowing the straitlaced commander utterly off course. Once aboard James comes face to face with a pirate boy who is in reality fierce desperate-and gorgeous-Samantha Christian on the run from a sadistic Vi