Three rules to avoid falling in love with a pirate:

1) Never sleep in the cozy bed in his cabin

2) Never cling to his hard, muscled body in a storm

3) Never let him call you his treasure

Adrian Greyville has the wind at his back, a ship at his command, and a future of his own making. What else could a man ask for? His parents would say he needed a wife, his sister would say he needed direction, but his elder brother, a once infamous pirate himself, would quite agree that the sea is his mistress, and the only direction he needs.

That is until he finds himself rescuing a woman from certain death on the Barbary coast. What's a man to do with a woman who acts as haughty and regal as an ice princess, yet melts in his arms the moment he whispers sweet words and steals a kiss?

Catherine Montclair isn't a princess, but she is the daughter of a duke who captured the attention of a prince. Finding herself being sold after her ship was captured by blood-thirsty pirates is a nightmare beyond imagining. Until a handsome piratical stranger with kindness in his eyes and kisses that taste of honeyed dreams, rescues her. She can't be tempted, she can't surrender to the passion he evokes within her because she's betrothed to another. She must resist, she must escape and return to her family... before she loses her heart to a pirate.