Grizel Calder has one week to find a better match—or be given to the brutal widower rumored to have murdered his first wife. Desperate, she makes a reckless choice: she offers herself to a pirate laird instead.
Malcolm MacAulay wants freedom, not a wife. But when a desperate, sharp-tongued beauty comes to him with a bargain that solves his own problem with the king, he cannot resist.
He should put her ashore.
Instead, he keeps her in his cabin. In his plans. In his hands.
Now trapped at sea with a pirate whose desire is as ruthless as the men hunting her, Grizel may have escaped one monster only to fall into the arms of another.
The one she might beg to ruin her.
She dared to propose to a pirate—and discovered he never plays fair.
