Maria Fuentes, a beautiful med student from the economically depressed island of Cuba, is kidnapped and smuggled to Nassau aboard The Calypso Princess. Fearing for her life and desperate to protect herself from being ravaged by her captors, Maria takes advantage of the protection offered by one of her guards. She has no way of knowing if the protection he offers is real or a ploy to have her for himself. She decides to follow her heart. Kyle Alexander is a teacher; a very good one. He has sought and been offered a summer job teaching English at a school for women in Nassau. When he accepts the job, he is told his first assignment will be to board The Calypso Princess and help the crew go pick up cargo. He expects the cargo to be food, books or tools, but their shipment turns out to be kidnapped women. Kyle knows he is in over his head. What he has done will get him thrown in prison, or at the very least, he will lose the teaching license and career he has worked so hard to achieve. His first inclination at returning to port is to hightail it back to the safety of his quiet Oklahoma life. The rub to that solution is that he has fallen in love with one of the captives.