Strands of Desire — Antoinette Beaudry

RAGING TIDES
Ruthlessly raped by her drunken stepfather - a man she had always admired and adored until he left an indelible mark on her innocent flesh - an embittered Opal Grant is determined to erase the shame that sears her very soul.

But in Algiers she finds herself hopelessly lost in the treacherous streets of the Casbah, where again her honor is at stake as she becomes the helpless pawn of a barbarous pirate who abducts her aboard his ship.

For the fiery Opal is not only the rarest of jewels, she is also precious cargo, which must be delivered to the Bey of Algiers - unless the handsome stranger who briefly befriended her attempts to save her from a fate far worse than death.