Angela Reading

Nathaniel Williamsen is taken to an island mission with his fiancee Sophie. Their ship, the Rona, is captained by the roguish Bully Hayes, who also takes a liking to Sophie. When Sophie is kidnapped by slave trader Ben Pease "Nate" teams with Hayes in order to find her.

A former TV anchor tracks down a reclusive romance novelist hiding a facial deformity. As she uncovers his past, their growing closeness forces him to face the possibility of intimacy after years in isolation.