During the Golden Age of Piracy, Jacquotte Delahaye, the daughter of a French father and Haitian mother, is forced to flee her life as a shipwright in Santo Domingo when her father is assassinated. Unfortunately, the ship she escapes on is captured by pirates. She and a fellow refugee named Teresa are made indentured servants on the pirate crew, eventually violently working their way up the pirate career ladder and falling in love. The action-packed novel is more focused on the former than the latter.
There’s no solid evidence that Delahaye was a real person, but Cameron imagines her life as it might have unfolded based on historical events in the 17th century Caribbean and on sources that describe her legend.
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