A strait-laced lieutenant. A free-living pirate. Enemies from the first. Lieutenant Thomas Peregrine is outraged when he's ordered to leave his ship and join the Brethren of the Coast. But Perry knows the folly of disobeying the tyrannical Commodore Pobjoy. He enlists with the Audacious, a pirate ship bound for the high seas in search of the Spanish treasure galleons.Aboard his new ship is sailing master Gabriel Quinn, the most beautiful man he's ever laid eyes on. Perry, a devout Puritan, is dismayed by his desire for a godless pirate, and an Irishman withal. He blurts out a shocking insult. And though he tries to apologise, it's too little, too late. There can be nothing between them but bitter hatred.Then one night, in a rowdy Port Royal tavern, Quinn stops him from making a stupid mistake. But there are consequences for carelessness. Perry's orderly world is about to be turned upside down.