Marie is trying to perfect her fertilizer after a miscalculation in her formula causes a field to go up in flames, when her brother arrives and insists that they must leave in a hurry. Men from the French government want Marie's formula and they will do anything to get it. During their hasty exit, their carriage crashes. Marie wakes up in an asylum with no memory of her past.
Max has been sent to uncover the formula from Marie. It was used to blow up his brother's ship and he isn't about to let it get into the hands of the French to kill more Englishmen. Since Marie has lost her memory, he poses as her husband and rescues her from the asylum. His one job is to get the formula from Marie, but he never counted on the feelings that would develop for her. The more time he spends with her, he can't imagine that she created the explosives to harm others. Will his feelings for Marie end up interfering with the job his government has tasked him with?
When her father is killed by English pirates looking for the Sapphires of Kashmir, 6 year old Ashiana, is rescued by her father's friend, the Maharaja of Kashmir. She is raised as his daughter, a princess in the household. Years have passed and others have come looking for the sapphires, but when a ruthless Englishman comes looking, Ashiana is asked to help defend them. This Englishman has one of the sapphires and is trying to acquire the rest of them. Many years ago, his father stole that one that is currently in his possession. Ashiana is tasked with getting the sapphire back from him and reuniting it with the other Sapphires of Kashmir. Knowing that she has never really been accepted by her new family because of her English blood, Ashiana accepts this challenge, hoping that it will finally give the others a reason to accept her.
Saxon is on a mission to get the rest of the sapphires as he knows that is the reason his brother was stricken with an illness was because of the curse on the sapphires. If he can only reunite them, the curse should be lifted. When he learns that the harem woman, that he is to be given, once lived in Kashmir, he decides to take advantage of their evening together to see what she knows about the sapphires. She claims to know nothing about them, but he later wakes up to find out that he had been drugged and the sapphire that was once in his possession is now gone.
Through dumb luck, he finds Ashiana on his ship and he plans to take her as he continues his search. He didn't count on falling for her. But when he learns there is more to the story than what he thought, what will happen to their budding romance?
