It is 1752, and Scarlett is a young woman sailing the Atlantic with her father's friend, the captain, aboard a merchant ship. Nathaniel, a runaway prince, was shipwrecked and barely alive, when Scarlett saved him from drowning. They don't have time to fall in love, before they are captured by pirates. Scarlett finds herself falling for the young pirate captain who continues to spare her life over and over, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew.