About the book: 2004 / Returning from distant Australia to England, the young beautiful widow Alex Warren is captured by pirates. But the brave adventurer Gavin Elliott, risking his life, saves the captive from the fate of a powerless slave. Gavin and Alex became friends? Perhaps, but... how long can an innocent friendship last between a man and a woman, burning in the flames of real passion - and dreaming of belonging to each other forever??..