Can true love pass away? Or, neglected, can it lay dormant until the object of true desire is again within reach? Denied, does enthusiasm smolder, like embers waiting for the right circumstances to flare into an all-consuming conflagration?

New York Instances bestselling author Stephanie Laurens delivers the thrilling summary towards the acclaimed Adventurers Quartet series played from the high seas and sweltering tropical jungles.

The eldest of the Frobisher brothers, referred to as the lord of the privateers, about Lord of the Privateers Royd expects to execute the final leg from the rescue mission his brothers have already been pursuing. What he does not expect is to be pressured into taking with him his psychological nemesis, child years sweetheart, ex-handfasted bride, and business partner, Isobel Carmichael. But is it Isobel doing the pressuring or his personal restless, unfulfilled psyche?

Isobel, unstoppably resolute and driven, has a mission of her personal: get her cousin Katherine and bring her safely house. If she can also rid herself from the dreams of a existence with Royd that haunt her, then well and great.

Neither expects the surprise that awaits because they collection sail aboard Royd’s ship, much less the new horizons that open before them in London and in their mission in the mining compound in the jungle.

Yet despite having the support of his brothers, their females, and rescued ex-captives, Royd and Isobel discover that freeing the captives is only half the fight. They must determine and convict the backers behind the illicit organization and thus secure the federal government from catastrophic destabilization. Therefore they go back to the ballrooms of Mayfair to hunt the villains on their home ground.

But having found one another again, having glimpsed the heaven that might be theirs again, how much are they willing to risk in the name of responsibility?