Bored by society''s rules and strictures, Kathryn ''Kit'' Cranmer yearns for adventure - and she finds it on Britain''s rugged eastern coast, dressed as a boy at the head of a rag-tag band of smugglers. But there is another who rules the night: the notorious Captain Jack, the ruthless leader of a rival gang who will allow no tresspassers...and who stops Kit''s breath with his handsome, etched features and powerful physique. In no time, Captain Jack sees though Kit''s brazen disguise - and tempts her with kisses that compel the beautiful adventuress to surrender her cherished independence for nights of incomparable bliss. But her lover is much more than he seems - a man of secrets and dangerous mystery - and becoming Captain Jack''s woman will carry Kit into a world of sensuous pleasures and unparalleled perils...and to new heights of excitement beyond anything she''s ever dreamed.