^{HE THOUGHT HE'D BE A HERO BY NOW-AND THAT IT WOULD MEAN SOMETHING.}

^{It's 1816. The wars with France and America are over. Royal Navy career man Everard Anderson de Anglada sails the peacetime Great Lakes, demoted to captain of a tiny ten-gun schooner. When Preston D'Arcy, Everard's former lieutenant and too-handsome ex-flame, forewarns him about a court-martial they must judge, Everard is begrudgingly grateful.}

^{HE'S RADICAL, RESPECTED, UNFORGETTABLE-AND A PIRATE.}

^{On the docket, however, is Vitaliy "Vitya" Gray, infamous pirate captain and anti-colonial weapons smuggler. Everard has crossed paths with him before-not strictly as enemies.}

^{TOGETHER, THEY COULD BE LEGENDARY...}

^{After a hasty jailbreak, philosophical debates, and proposals-pirate marriage, no strings-Everard finds himself, his heart, and even D'Arcy commandeered: to the Gulf of México. There, piracy is nothing like he imagined, and Vitya is everything Everard ever truly wished to be.}

^{... SO LONG AS LEGEND DOESN'T GET IN THE WAY OF LOVE.}

^{The Spanish crown looms. Dangerous secrets and betrayals come to light. Then Everard is offered a position with the revolutionary Galveston navy. Everard must decide: fulfill his desire for legacy... or stay beside the men with whom he's fallen in love and make a legacy of their own.}