Princess Ailbe expected the Irish Sea to claim her life, not a Saxon raider to claim her soul. When Noah St. Claire hauls the defiant royal from the waves, he does not just want a ransom; he wants the fire burning in her eyes. Noah is a man of iron laws and primal hunger, a king who rules his stronghold with an iron fist. But as they retreat to the cold stone of Highclere, the friction between captor and captive ignites a heat.