When the notorious Captain Griffith murders a merchant sailor and claims his young wife, he inadvertently sparks a bloody chain of events that will alter the course of piracy in the Caribbean forever. Dragged aboard a fearsome brigantine named Harbinger, the fire-haired Katherine Lindsay must survive Griffith's sadistic quartermaster, who firmly believes that women bring bad luck upon a ship. With no means of escape on the horizon, she quickly befriends a dashing young deckhand and a cowardly surgeon. As Katherine grows accustomed to life among pirates, she finds it increasingly difficult to resist her attraction to their dangerous lifestyle and the thrill of high-seas adventure. But the memory of her dead husband weighs heavily on her conscience, and her rising guilt may prove to be the ultimate undoing of her captors. Pirate lovers will find no shortage of treachery, cutlass duels, ship-to-ship battles, buried treasure and much, much more.