Lady India... Beautiful, headstrong, wild, and determined. Certainly no surprise, considering Lady India Lindley is the granddaughter of the famed Skye O'Malley and daughter of the equally beautiful Jasmine de Marisco Lindley.

India is accustomed to having her own way. And an arranged marriage is not something she is willing to face. Boarding a ship to Italy, along with her intended choice for husband, she is determined to elope and escape her domineering family. But when fate intervenes in the form of capture by Ottoman pirates, India finds herself as body slave to the mysterious, handsome and commanding Caynan Reis, dey of the state of El Sinut on the Barbary Coast.

However, things are not always what you see on the surface. Caynan is equally determined to tame the wild beauty, but not by force. Force will not win the love of India. And so begins the erotic game between a man who will not accept defeat and a woman who will not surrender to a barbarian's love.