The Lafitte brothers were privateers, legally commandeering ships and cargoes with permission from the USA and Spain. They were also American patriots who assisted Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans against the British (1814-15). Their lieutenants, heroes of these stories, are entirely fictional characters. Christian must win the trust of the governor's niece to free Lafitte, but she isn't in her uncle's good graces. Shipwrecked off the Texas coast, a German beauty is taken to Lafitte's camp by Marc Rochelle-his Creole mistress is not happy. Bored with proper society, Emily Clayton longs for adventure, but is she ready for the man from a dark-hulled ship that flies no flag? Romance is the same as it was two hundred years ago.