For years, Azucena Valiente has been searching for her soul partner-the one man with whom she is meant to travel lifetimes-and her only clue is a great ship that will lead her to a blue-eyed stranger. But when the fated ship arrives in the dead of night, the merciless crew forces her and her people into slavery, and the mysterious blue-eyed man is now her master.
James Sauvage, the son of a wealthy lord in Port D'Hiver, has been thrown into a life he never wanted after the callous murder of his older brother. Now the only heir, it falls to him to take up his father's slave trade. But when he meets Azucena, the lovely yet disobedient new slave woman who refuses to tell him her real name, he finds he must decide between duty and conscience.
As fate draws James and Azucena closer together, the unknown menace that killed James's brother threatens his life as well, and it's clear that more than one man in Port D'Hiver is harboring a dark secret. And when the laws of high society threaten to tear James and Azucena apart, James will risk everything-his wealth, his title, even his own life-to set Azucena free . . .