The haunting song of a distant era calls the beautiful graduate student to her subject, the enigmatic Captain Blackwell.

Across the centuries, she is drawn by an inexplicable passion into the realm of mystery and danger- to be imprisoned in an opulent world of harem intrigue and sensuous slavery.

And now Blackwell is with her- patriot, privateer, heroic commander of the U.S. merchantman the Pearl- the dream, the desire made achingly real. Imperiled captives of fate, they are untied by a power far greater thantime- and by a passion that could destroy themboth... or forever change the course of history.