He called her his Golden Bird of Love and he had wanted her from the day he'd first seen her on the balcony next to his in Amsterdam. Clad only in her nightdress, her golden hair catching the rays of the sun at dawn, her voice softly raised in song. And so Verhulst Van Rappard married Imogene and carried her off to America as his prize. He did not know that the song she sang was for another man, a copper-haired Englishman who had made her his on the sea-washed sands of a distant isle and who had promised to come to her again on the wings of Bold Breathless Love.

Van Ryker flees England to escape a murder charge and becomes a pirate, but his passionate bride learns the truth about his past and seeks to clear his name

When Imogene attempts to escape the passionate advances of the pirate, Captain van Ryker, she is shipwrecked on the English coast and finds herself accused of murder

Anna Smith was a beauty beyond price, though all she brought as dowry to Brett Danforth was a pair of silver candlesticks "stolen" from the Bermuda estate that should have hers by right. So they were wed - and Anna, looking up into the eyes of her "English patron" husband, thought she saw a gleam of love. Or was it the glitter of greed? Had she given Brett the gift of her love to receive in return only fool's gold?