373 pages
English language
Published June 15, 1978 by Avon.
Sailing westward toward the Caribbean sun, young Bettina Verlaine is obediently setting out to fulfill a promise made by her father - a prearranged marriage. But it is a wedding not to be... Abducted by the bold and handsome pirate, the notorious Captain Tristan, the pale-haired beauty finds herself helpless in his arms. Detesting her virile captor for enslaving her, yet held by the passionate spell he casts over her, she surrenders her innocence in the warm caress of the tropical winds, finding love's fulfillment in the magic of a pirate's powerful embrace.
Glorified rape-called-true-love. I’m all for doing whatever you want in fiction, but... something is just disturbing about how it’s presented and brushed off by all other characters, especially protag’s mum.
