The Privateer's Woman — June Wetherell

Her mother had told her that she would never know real freedom - 'It's a man's world; you were born a woman. It is God's way.' But Desmond Duval was not satisfied with what was to be her lot in life. Taking her fate into her own hands, disguised as a boy, she ran away to sea on a pirate ship, only to find her young, maturing body would betray her to the woman-hungry buccaneers. But Desmond's survival depended not on herself but on one man - Dragon - the mysterious, brooding captain of the privateers, the only man who could kindle the flames of desire in her; who taught her the meaning of passion even as he plunged her into an ecstasy of despair. Who was Dragon? Where did he go those quiet nights when he turned his back on Desmond?