Chained to the wall of half-human bootlegger Romeo Taurean's hideaway, an undercover reporter risks everything for the story of a lifetime. A masked outlaw for the past two decades, Romeo has been the perfect pirate, but he longs for another kind of excitement. The kind that can only be found buried in the silken warmth of a woman who wants nothing more than to expose his criminal secrets to the entire galaxy... or so it seems.