![]() ![]() ![]() There the 16-year-old learns she has been promised in marriage to the Brazilian Bartholome, a sadistic man rumored to be "the Devil himself." Nancy runs away with Minerva, the slave girl to whom she has grown close, and they wind up on the pirate ship captained by the gentlemanly officer who befriended Nancy on her way to Jamaica. After her family's fortunes founder, and her merchant (and slave trader) father dies, narrator Nancy is sent from her Bristol home to the Jamaica plantation she is slated to inherit. ![]() Readers new to the author may be drawn in by the book's good looks: handsome cover art and appropriately swashbuckling endpapers. ![]() Will relish this highly romantic cross-dressing romp on the high seas in the early 18th century. ![]()
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