title: The Spanish Prize
author: Makepeace, Joanna
description: Doña Maria Santiago y Talavera understood only too well what the corsair threatened.
  
  Despatched by her uncle to Cartagena, to marry her betrothed, Maria had rebelled against a loveless arranged match to a cold-hearted and autocratic Spanish hidalgo. Her brief freedom was cut short by an encounter with an English buccaneer. Now Maria was aboard Captain Giles Norwood's ship, her fate entirely in his hands.
  
  She could not tolerate such a rough freebooter -- but as they sailed together Maria began to realize that she could not imagine life without him!