Grounded

Will the next crime he commits be the one that saves someone he loves?

Jared Bricken has been a pirate for most of his life, moving from Deckhand to Quartermaster to Captain by the age of twenty-six. To eliminate the growing threat in their waters, the Evradian kingdom promises pardons to all those who come forward and renounce piracy. Jared can't forget his reasons for leaving civilisation behind, but, when his crew vote in favour of taking the pardons, he's forced to conform to the very world he despised.

Kara Sethers is the young wife of an Evradian admiral. Mistreated and always within her husband's sight, Jared admires her from a distance, captivated by her strength, pained by the humiliation she endures and enraged by societies unwillingness to help her because of who her husband is.

Jared has a choice; take her away and return to a life at sea, proving to the Evradians that he truly is nothing more than the villain that pirates are portrayed as, or live a reformed life on land, his heart forever aching for the woman he cannot have.