When Sophie's sent to a matchmaking party at a neighboring estate, the pirate from Pembroke arrives and distracts everyone from the summer festivities. Unguarded, her feelings about the mysterious Captain Murdock bloom into a trusted friendship that Sophie fears may come to mean more than anyone would ever suspect.

A wicked stepmother, a sea of pirates, and a hero in disguise...
Julia Scott flees an arranged marriage and a cruel stepmother to live with her uncle in the West Indies. Attacked by pirates and desired by island natives, the only person she can trust is John Smith-if that's his true name.

As Savannah society brings a privileged and pressured young woman and a man desperate for success together, the marsh will reveal their secrets—and their hearts. Christine will do anything to stop a rogue captain from influencing and ruining her brother, but she never expects the crew of Alligator George is watching and waiting…

Phoebe Applewaite is a burden on her family. She's almost twenty-six and cannot find a suitable occupation to support herself from her Charleston home. When her mother insists that she marry, she finds herself dropped at the stoop of their oldest family friends who have problems of their own: a wayward heir. Is an arranged marriage to a liar, gambler, and sea captain her only choice?