When a woman poses as a man to escape a horrible fate on a pirate ship…Margery Fields’ father was pressed into service by the notorious Black Shark pirate crew when she was nine-years-old. Unfortunately, the skilled surgeon and single father had his only child in tow at the time. To protect her from the pirates the last ten years, he has raised her as his apprentice "son" in the sick bay.When one of the ship’s carpenters discovers her real identity, he begins to plot their escape, while privately dreaming of courting her some day. Escaping won’t be easy, though beneath the watchful eye of their new and ruthless boatswain — a man who was never fooled by her playacting. She soon discovers she has not one but two men vying to win her heart on the savage waters of the Pacific!