THE PIRATE'S WIDOW

She ran from the hangman's noose . . . into the arms of love. Callie Llewellyn sailed the world as the wife of notorious pirate Kit Llewellyn. With him and his crew she is sentence to hang at London's Execution Dock but manages to escape and flees to Cornwall with Jem Wicke, Kit's former cabin boy. There they start a new life as Caroline Jenkins, a young widow, and her son. But Callie soon catches the eye of Sir Thomas Sedgewyck, a proud and arrogant man, who wants to make her his own. Callie, however, finds herself falling in love with Finn Blount, a local smuggler. Their triangle is the talk of the village and Callie learns she has enemies who will stop at nothing to keep her from becoming Lady Sedgewyck. And her spirit and independence anger a man who has the means to destroy her and everyone she loves.