Pirates! — Celia Rees

Nancy Kington, an heiress fleeing an arranged marriage, and Minerva Sharpe, a runaway plantation slave, both find unlikely salvation on the pirate ship Deliverance. Life as a pirate is difficult enough, but can the two young women escape the cruel Captain Bartholome, who has pledged to follow them over the seven seas? And will Nancy's long-lost friend, a sailor in the Royal Navy, love the pirate she has become?