Jason Kane lost everything to one man's treachery. Thirsting for vengeance, the ruthless privateer abducts Catherine Farrell, daughter of the swindler who destroyed his family. Intending to extract the debt owed him from his tempting prisoner, he plans a cold-blooded conquest. Aroused by his captive's sensual beauty, he claims her with seductive persuasion. As he plunges her into a world of pleasure, her passionate surrender sparks a deep longing in his heart and soul. Catherine Farrell lived the sheltered life of a prosperous merchant's daughter until Captain Jason Kane made her a pawn in his quest for retribution. Claimed by the captain, she finds herself at the mercy of a man who will settle for nothing less than complete domination. His tender mastery awakens Catherine's passions and stirs her heart. If only she convince him that love is far more satisfying than sweet revenge.

Russian actress Valentina Baranova travels to England to marry, but the arrangement is definitely not a love match. Betrothed to a cunning and ruthless English lord, she's the sweetener in a deal that will put stolen British documents in Russian hands and curry the czar's favor for her father. Determined to escape her loathsome intended, she flees him-and promptly falls into the hands of his most bitter enemy. An enemy who stirs her like no other. Spy for the Crown, Alec Jameson, Lord Carrington, is on a mission-unmask the traitor responsible for his brother's death before the blackguard can further betray Queen Victoria's empire. Capturing Valentina to use as bait, he spirits her away from London. Despite his efforts to resist the alluring captive he's snatched from his enemy's grasp, Alec claims Valentina in the most carnal way possible. Once the beauty has been in his bed, he wants her for his own. But she must lay siege to a long-untouched part of Alec's existence-his heart.