Rescuing a man whose ship had been floundering at sea, Isabeau Spense takes aboard ruthless privateer Simon Dante, who promptly seizes command of Beau's ship and sets out to win the lovely maiden's heart and mind.

    Puzzle-solving landlubbers will quickly get their sea legs as they join six suspicious characters on a high-speed hunt for treasure through this pop-up adventure. Full color.

    Left alone, Saracen falls in love, twice, makes a fortune from a newly discovered plant, and defeats a gang of ruffian pirates...all because of tingleberry ice cream, the tuckertub plant, and a solid gold telephone

    Posing as a pirate, he disguised his identity and his mission perfectly. The beautiful Dominique Charbonneau agreed to help unmask the ruthless rogue in order to win her brother's freedom. But when emotional currents began to rock the ship, she is forced to make an impossible decision--for saving her brother means sacrificing a glorious love she might never know again.

    

    His pirate ship swoops down on English frigates in tropical seas, and he takes what he wishes. But Miss Rebecca Talbot of Washington, spinster that she is, is either too naive -- or too brave -- to fear him. Taken captive while accompanying her beautiful sister on a voyage to London, tall, green-eyed Rebecca is stunned when the handsome buccaneer winks at her and presses her delicate wrist to his lips. Outwardly proper, but inwardly a little wild, she daringly offers to be the Raven's mistress if he will keep her sister safe. "Yes," he says.Surprising them both, their sudden desire becomes a storm bound by flesh and spirit neither can control. Together they are floating on a sea of passion. But when the voyage ends, the Raven and his secrets are off to another world, another life, leaving Rebecca's heart still captive... leaving her with dreams of love.

    Tales of his adventures, fights, and buried treasure have been told, fictionalized and made into movies. He smuggled slaves with Jim Bowie and fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. The author traces Laffite's life from his birth to his days at Barataria and to his final years on Galveston and Mujeres Islands. Index and Endnotes. 209 pages. Eakin Press.