The proud Colonial beauty, graced with silvergold hair and flashing eyes, hoped to be his bride. Then, swept into a growing storm of scandal, she was banished to Virginia. Captured by buccaneers on the high seas, Carolina became the Silver Wench of the Caribbean...and the defiant prisoner of the infamous Kells, a brooding man with insolent charm andd a mysterious past.On the island of Tortuga, where gentle winds caressed the perfumed nights and a lustrous moon whispered love's allure, Carolina must escape...to find Thomas again, and to flee Kells' passionate embrace, the rapturous temptation of his...LOVESONG

    This is a reissue of the classic story about a mousy accountant's first trip to the seaside with his ex-pirate mother.

    The story, a novelette first published in Asimov's SF Magazine in 1985, concerns a voyage of both discovery and pillage by a crew of 23rd century pirates from the "Catskill Archipelago" of islands, south, in search of the fabled "Empire State."

    The green-eyed privateer proudly commanded one of the fastest ships in the Caribbean. And when Captain Eric Crosse threatened to take over the Heather, Caitlin trembled with fury and prepared for the fight of her life. She'd vowed long ago that no man would be her master, certainly not this arrogant, handsome stranger. But even as she pointed her sword at his broad, muscular chest, she knew she would never slay him. For in his dark brown eyes she saw promises that made her weak with yearning, and in his lean body she sensed a strength that made her alive with passion... WAVES OF ECSTASYCaptain Crosse has always thought the stories about the beautiful auburn-haired seawench were just rumors. But when he felt the tip of Caitlin's deadly blade press against his heart, he had no doubt she was real. Eric had never met a woman with courage to equal his own, and as his eyes devoured her creamy skin and explored her tantalizing curves, he wondered if she could match his desires as well. He vowed to find the willing, wanton woman beneath her icy exterior, to melt her defiance with searing kisses, to win her heart with slow, sensual seduction that would brand her forever as the Pirate's Vixen.