A plotting pirate. A conflicted mercenary. One devoted knight. And a girl who has no idea how important her life is to each of them.

Lady-in-waiting to the high princess and yet a nobody within the castle walls, Idra still manages to rile the ire of a dangerous pirate bent upon making her suffer a life-long humiliation worse than death.

Captured and whisked across the sea, Idra must trust the untrustable if she has any hope to escape her fate. As a prisoner on a pirate ship?a place where redemption is a figment of the imagination?an ocean separates her from all she loves.

But even a king among pirates might underestimate the captivating power of Idra's gentle spirit, what depravity compassion can transform, and the depth of one knight's unrelenting love.