The Black Swan. Rafael Sabatini

Аннотация:

Priscilla Harradine is the daughter of the recently deceased governor of the Leeward Islands in the West Indies who travels back to England with her father's second-in-command, Major Bartholomew Sands. Sands plans to marry Priscilla upon returning and to live in comfort off of her inheritance. However, a late passenger boards their ship and it turns out to be an ex pirate Charles de Bernis, mysterious and rogue character who obtains Priscilla's attention. As their friendship grows, a shady person from buccaneer's past comes back to haunt him and takes them in a dangerous adventure.