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Synopsis

The year is 1762, and the Seven Years War is drawing to its close. John Cavendish, a zealous, handsome lieutenant of the British Royal Navy, has one desire: He wants to be Captain. Eager for glory, devoutly religious, he hates the double-dealing of politicians and the mere thought of sodomites. When he is given command of the HMS Meteor, and forced into an intimate acquaintance with both, the shock is enough to change his life forever.

Lieutenant Alfie Donwell, charming, reckless and deeply in love, also has one desire: He wants John. But how can he seduce his Captain without revealing his own nature? Courting a man who thinks one deserves to die is a risk that could end on the gallows. When it all goes wrong, Alfie turns to his old captain and first love, Charles Farrant, son of the Duke of Alderley, for protection. But Farrant and Farrant's sinister doctor have an agenda of their own.

From the white slave traders of Algiers to the re-emergence of the Caribbean buccaneers, John, Alfie, and Farrant have enemies enough without the twin spectres of damnation and disgrace. In an age when 'the love that dare not speak its name' is punishable by death, these three very different heroes must stand not only against their country's foes, but even against their own brothers-in-arms.

With God, society, and his own conscience against it, can any love be worth the sacrifice of a man's honour ... his very soul?