title: Pirate Child
author: Katros, Heide
description: Annemarie Ratcliff’s life changes abruptly, when a drunken sailor spins a tale about a female pirate by the name of Anne Bonny. An English Colonel believes his story and quickly gathers information that implicates Annemarie’s father as an accomplice to the pirate’s escape from prison. He charges Annemarie’s father with treason and threatens to hang him unless she consents to become his mistress.
  But Fate sets sea captain Trevor Mowbray on a collision course with Annemarie and her father, when he sails into the port of Norfolk, Virginia. Trevor and Michael Ratcliff form a quick and fast friendship. Michael entrusts his daughter’s welfare to Trevor, when Colonel Dinwidde makes good on his threat to imprison him. Trevor risks his life, when he rescues her from Dinwidde’s clutches. Unfortunately, his frigate shipwrecks in a tropical storm. All aboard are presumed dead.
  Two days later a daring woman appears in Charlestown and sets tongues wagging, when she buys a frigate and sails her herself. She is none other than Annemarie, but will her life ever be complete without Trevor?