Lady Isabeau de Vere is a masterpiece of the Tudor court: stiffened by whalebone, draped in velvet, and paralyzed by pride. But when King Henry trades her to the Sovereign of the Narrow Seas to balance his ledgers, Isabeau’s world of courtly whispers is shattered.She is no longer a lady of the realm; she is cargo. Captain Alaric Thorne is a man forged by the salt and the storm. He has no use for a useless aristocrat, but he has a dark purpose for the woman hidden beneath the finery...