1800's: An arranged marriage, a shipwreck, two murders, swashbuckling pirates, a lecherous sailor, a guilty midwife, a handsome seaman and a spunky heroine with a mind of her own. On board the Falcon in the West Indies seas, Anne Landry is furious when she learns her father has agreed with the Duke of Denwick that she will marry the Duke's son, Earl Reginald Rumford. The Earl is a pompous, self-centered sot; she has no intention of ever marrying him. But just before her father is swept overboard in a wild storm that sinks the ship, he makes her promise to honor his agreement with the Duke...a...