He is her only escape. She is his only prison.

When Jemima Livington, only daughter of the Duke of Cowden, is forced to marry a man she loathes, she runs away. Disguised as a young sailor, she boards the Evening Star to escape her horrid fate.

Simon Fitzwalles, Earl of Burhill, has the sea as his only mistress. Lonely but mysterious, his life changes unexpectedly when he saves a young, handsome sailor from assault.

But Jemima’s betrothed is an obsessive man who won’t stop until he finds her…and he is getting closer by the minute.

Soon Jemima will find out that he and the ravishing Earl share a common past. The answer to an old calamity, that, once exposed, will either be her ticket to freedom or to her eternal captivity.