The series opener for a new wave of historical/paranormal romance--A pirate fights the undead over the fate of an Irish girl in this exciting genre mashup. Ireland, 1773. Ian Shannon fears for his daughter's life. Just before their final moments together, he gives Gabriella an important scrap of parchment written in a cryptic language. Cast out of her home in Kilrane, Ireland, the angry mob demands the young woman sacrifice her life to satiate the demonic plague that has been terrorizing their village. She is set adrift in the dark Irish Sea to die. Elsewhere in the same waters, the notorious pirate, Captain James Delacroix-known to many as The Sea Wolf-is in a battle of his own trying to keep his beloved ship from going down in a raging storm. Just as all looks lost, he thinks he sees the vision of a beautiful woman, an omen, within the churning clouds. Once the storm passes, the crew finds Gabriella adrift and brings her aboard. He could not have predicted the dark secret she keeps nor the terrible trouble which follows, and reluctantly, she reveals that an ancient vampire hunts her. Centuries-old, Lord Draven Valentin has been in a relentless search. Until now, he could only visit her in her dreams as a faded memory. After years of torment, he has found her, and he will stop at nothing to possess what was once his. As the relationship between the Captain and Gabriella deepens, Draven grows viciously determined to claim his chaste prize intact. Now with James as her only hope, Gabriella must either place her trust with a marauding pirate wanted throughout England or surrender to the undead.