While on his way to retrieve a damaged vessel, Jacob St. John's ship makes a brief stop in Cuba for supplies. While at a local tavern, an exotic white-haired beauty offers to help ease his loneliness, but instead of an erotic interlude, Jacob wakes up to find the temptress drugged him. Chained in the belly of a ship, he vows revenge on the beautiful pirate. Julianna Ranvier has made a deal with the devil, Donald Newsome, the quartermaster of her ship, to drug unsuspecting sailors in order to gather a crew. It's the only way to saver her brother's life. After she has acquired the needed crew, she learns the truth-that Newsome has no intention of fulfilling his end of the bargain. As Julianna's world crumbles around her, she must seek assistance from the one man who may never help her, the man she drugged-Jacob St. John. As fate takes them to Morocco, France, England and home again, can Jacob fight the desire coursing through his veins and seek the vengeance he so desperately craves or will he allow himself to succumb to this Jewel of the Sea?