Honoria Ardmore has a secret. Four years ago, the notorious pirate Christopher Raine, arrested and condemned for stealing a ship filled with gold bound for Napoleon, makes one last request of Honoria. She grants it, and Christopher is taken out to be hanged. -- Or was he?
Honoria couldn't have seen him come back to life in the rather thick fog outside Covent Garden Theatre, could she? Christopher is long dead and gone, Honoria's secret with him. Her life has moved on, and now she's betrothed to a respectable English gentleman.
Christopher has other ideas. His sentence commuted at the last minute, Christopher was press-ganged onto a ship bound for Asia, and he's spent the last four years working to return home and get everything back--his crew, his treasure, and Honoria Ardmore--his wife.
