Jeannette Boucher, a young French beauty from a family left penniless by
the revolution, must marry against her will to save them all from ruin.
But almost immediately after the vows are spoken, she learns that her
old English husband is impotent--and in his desire for an heir, he plans
to compromise her in the worst way. Determined to escape such a fate,
she stows away on one of His Majesty's frigates. But a woman alone is in
constant danger. To Lieutenant Treynor, honor means everything.... Born
a bastard to a wayward marquise, Lieutenant Crawford Treynor was given
to a poor farmer to raise and was maltreated until he ran away to join
the Royal Navy. Treynor is determined to prove he's as good as any other
man and rise to captain his own frigate. But once he finds Jeannette
aboard The Tempest he must decide whether to return her to the man he
knows would abuse her--or risk everything, even his life, to keep her
safe.
