Margaret has a fantastic secret. Pale of hair and skin with a silvery voice to match, she has endured life as the ill-used mistress of British Navy Captain Ambrose Price. The only way she can return home is to find a magical pearl stolen by the pirates aboard the Mercy's Ransom. When she meets the man with the 'golden aura', she knows he is the only man who can save her. Trouble is: will she be able to let him go? Handsome Jack is a gentleman pirate just looking for a fight. Thrown off his own ship by a treacherous hand, he is seeking a ship to bear him on a bloody mission of revenge. Then he comes face to face with a silvery woman offering him everything: escape from the noose, a ship, plus the sunken treasure of the fabled Ana Maria Salvador. All he has to do is find her one, solitary, grey pearl. It sounds so simple. But he never bargained for the feelings she draws from him as easily as breathing. He never counted on being unwilling to let her go. In the end, he knows it is more than his honor at stake. It is his soul.