With her wedding canceled, her reputation in tatters, her car in a ditch and her best outfit ruined, Barbara Regent was having a rotten day. Getting stranded in a ramshackle shanty with a dangerous stranger was not a wise way to cap off the evening.

Yet the man’s barely restrained power mesmerized her. His piratical scars intrigued her. His midnight eyes unveiled her darkest secrets. He put a flame to the tinderbox of her emotions, igniting an explosion of frenzied passion. And soon, Barbara fea red, the reverberations would rock the whole town, completely exposing her utter disarray….