As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, young Amy Malory has reached marriageable age, and she has set her amorous sights on a most unsuitable mate: the handsome, straightlaced ships captain who once nearly had her uncle James hung for piracy. Warren Anderson is shocked by the brazen advances of his despised enemys high-spirited niece. Still tormented by an unfaithful former lovers past treachery, he is determined to resist Amys charms. But an overpowering yearning for the enchanting minx threatens to defeat his defiant heartand force its sensuous surrender to a love that could stoke the fires of a perilous family feud.