BARBADOS: Anne Delmas, lured into a pirate network, escapes on Chris and Holden's schooner, the Liberte. THE CARIBBEAN: Torn between these brothers, she helps recover treasure, encountering pirates, volcanos, and Carib Indians. DEVIL'S TRIANGLE: Three ships converge, and three lives discover their destiny in a deadly storm.

Acadia, 1755, Jeannette Le Blanc and her family flee British deportation by taking Holden's schooner, the Free Spirit, to the West Indies. There Jeannette's espionage escalates intrigue and romance until New Orleans, where she discovers France's strategic weakness in the French and Indian War, and brings her spy report to Washington. She then welcomes her new life with Captain Holden.

Saratoga, 1777- Peleg escorts Becky from crafty Iroquois to Valley Forge to report Saratoga's victory, then outwits British spyships to relay instructions to Franklin in Paris- where they are sent to England to rescue American sailors and on to the Caribbean- and now Becky continues to lead her merry international chase, retrieves her treasure to buy America arms, and gains the arms of Peleg.