Savage Passage — Gardner Francis Fox

They came from all over Europe - lusty men and lonely women, seeking escape from the Old World, hoping to find new lives and new loves in America.

There was Helga, the virginal Norwegian girl who found it impossible to resist the handsome young first mate of the clipper Dreadnought.

Irene, devoted to her dying husband but enslaved by her body's passionate response to the virile Victor.

Elsa, the beautiful young widow who had thought all desire dead - until she met Karl .

But before they could set sail, the skipper of the Dreadnought had to find a crew. He used fists and pistols to commandeer the meanest collection of wharf rats on the Liverpool docks, known as the Bloody Forty. Captain Samuels knew mutiny was inevitable - the only question was, when?