title: Lady Barbara & the Buccaneer
author: Howard, Charisse
description: “I dare you!” Why not? thinks Lady Barbara Poole. Next week she’ll leave the Louisiana bayou for London. Tonight is Mardi Gras, and her cousin Frank can’t bear to miss the party thrown by notorious pirate Jean Laffite. On the festive island of Grand Terre, Frank meets friends who whisk him off to the gambling tent. Barbara, dressed as Columbine, is escorted through the revels by a gentleman costumed as Will Stover, the Black Buccaneer. Only...is it a costume? Who is this charming, alarming stranger who lights a fire in her heart and sweeps her into a mad shipboard wedding? Tonight, laissez les bon temps rouler! But when Mardi Gras ends, will she ever see her beloved buccaneer again?