Introduction

When servant Clara is traded into a loveless marriage with a distasteful, middle-aged pirate captain, she jumps off the ship on which she is held captive to travel under a false identity to Rutabella Isles, a bustling island separated by her home country of Sparrow Ridge by the Olivia Sea. She finds a quick ally in Alfie Renfried, a landlubber pirate who has a profound dislike for Captain Eros as well and who rows her to her destination.

But less than a day on the island shows Clara that perhaps she had better expose her true self to inspire the people. After all, a war between the pirates and the rest of the world has been brewing for years, and his missing fiance might just be the spark for the battle.