Publisher's Synopsis
Even by the prevailing standards of the licentious court of Charles II, Lady Dona de Colomb is notorious for her willingness to indulge in any mischief or devilment, however outrageous. But inwardly she yearns for that sweet, infinite love which she finds in the passionate embrace of Jean-Benoit Aubery, the daring pirate whom all Cornwall wishes to see dangling from the gallows. At last, Lady Dona has met a soul as unfettered as her own but, as the net closes in she has to make that anguished choice which is no choice at all. . . .
