A thousand miles from land and surrounded by mutineers, Meg Eaton clings to just one chance for survival.
 
Meg, a high society courtesan desperate to escape trouble in London, married the bosun of a British frigate to win a quick passage to India. But when mutineers cast her husband Elias and the other officers adrift in a leaky boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean, she must fend for herself.
 
Her one weapon: the location of the fabled treasure buried by pirate Ben Ringgold on a remote island. Though the island itself is real, the treasure exists only in a seaman’s tale once told her by Elias.
 
Wielding both her knowledge of men and a ready cutlass, Meg plays the crew against each other, buying time as they descend into piracy and ever greater savagery. But the treasure island draws near. And with it, a reckoning.