Love's Pirate — Mary Daheim

Beautiful Dallas Cameron, left penniless by her father's death, was desperate. When she discovered that Iain Fraser, favorite of the Queen, was making his fortune as a pirate, she proposed a bargain: her silence for the security of marriage. Dallas never dreamed that their arrangement would unleash all the passion of his pirate's blood ... or that her gentle innocence would surrender so willingly to desire. But duty to the Queen took Iain from his bride, and they suffered the agonies and jealousies of lonely separation. Iain could find happiness with no other woman. And Dallas could not still the longings that raged in her soul. For out of their bargain had come the marriage of two hearts that yearned passionately to be one forever.