No memory of his assassin past, sentenced to death for a duel gone wicked, Lochlanaire Blackheart is granted freedom, commanded by King William to hunt Siren Rain, the illegitimate daughter of ousted King James II.

Her existence threatens the British monarchy. In capturing his prey, Lochlanaire must plunder the signet Siren dons. That jewel is the talisman of King James II, which proves Siren's ancestry. Lochlanaire, however, is unaware that at the moment he casts sail aboard his ship, Siren's already been kidnapped by his pirate brother, Zore.

Lochlanaire must stalk Zore and battles this cutthroat, in a fateful twist, for the captive princess, spinning Siren into his web of treachery and lies. Afterward, they're shipwrecked in a gale, entwined in a union of inconvenience when Lochlanaire weds Siren under the witchery of gypsies at pistol point. After Lochlanaire enlightens Siren of her true father's identity, to spare her own life, she seduces her captor, desperate to conceive Lochlanaire's child. She believes he cannot surrender her to die at King William's hangman's noose if their blood unites.

Lochlanaire, alas, is stalked at every footfall by a ghoul slaughtering the pirates aboard his ship.

That goul bears a dastardly secret. Siren must unravel all the Blackheart brothers' secluded evils, while conspiring to save Lochlanaire, for he threads together a travesty by which to sacrifice himself to the king who enslaves him, all while opposing the two seething brothers who seek his demise for the tragedies reaped in Lochlanaire's shattered past. If Lochlanaire fails to evade the death-curses shadowing his every step, Siren will lose the breath-wrenching privateer who is her assassin hunter, the possessor of her lusty soul, and her only love.

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