A pastiche of a swashbuckling adventure tale in honor of my sailing skipper Marty. A romantic adventure yarn of the Confederacy. Meet the daring novice nun turned smuggler Captain Marta Griffin, her lusty Nordic mate Lorraine, her aria-singing second mate, Signora Julia, and the swashbuckling blockade runner Jean-Louis Bretagnant. They encounter amazing real-life characters, including the dashing General PGT Beauregard, the handsome Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth, the Union spy Kate Warne, Jefferson and Varina Davis, and the unauthorized privateer Thomas Hogg.