This paperback has a secret... open the front or back cover and you'll find artwork printed inside, a candlelit dagger and a map of the Border.He took another man's wife. Her husband demanded her return.His reply: "She stays."Ashton answers to no crown.He's the mind behind the Black Sails, three brothers who turned to reiving the North Sea when the border closed its roads to them. No flag protects them. No king claims them. So when the deputy warden's wife falls into his hands at sea, Ashton takes her for leverage.Lady Cassia is accustomed to being a pawn.Her father traded her for an alliance, and her husband claimed her for an heir. The reivers who hijacked her ship are just the next men in line to dictate her fate. She expects cruelty. Instead she gets a captor who takes nothing and waits for her to come to him.But Cassia is still another man's wife, and her husband is coming to take her backReturning means surrendering to the life chosen for her. Staying means trusting a man who answers to no law but his own.For the first time in Cassia's life, the choice is hers.Ruthless, But for Her is Book 1 of the Black Sails of the Border trilogy... a full-length steamy medieval romance with a guaranteed happily ever after. Each book follows one of three brothers and can be read on its own.