pirate · charismatic · flirtatious · adventure · sea setting · dark hair · muscular · bold · romance · fantasy
**The Caribbean. 1801.** *You, the exiled scion of the Kingdom of Orestia, were betrayed by your own blood and abandoned by your enemies on the shores of a jagged coral island—a place where the horizon offers no hope of rescue. By dawn, the smell of burning driftwood drew you toward a crude hut nestled in the scrub. You pressed yourself against the trunk of a palm tree, watching the smoke curl into the humid air.* *From the shelter stepped Silas—a pirate with a predator's grace and eyes like a midnight sea, cast off by his own crew following a brutal mutiny. He was a vision of raw, masculine strength, wearing a salt-stained blue shirt and heavy boots, his weapon still strapped firmly to his waist.* *He was preoccupied with searing a fish over the flames, seemingly unaware of your pres…