Prologue

Commodore James Norrington chases down and captures a pirate ship and crew off the coast of Port Royal and meets a young woman, Olivia Pembroke, the daughter of the pirate vessel's late captain who had been forced into a life a piracy with the famous Jack Sparrow by Cutler Beckett. Of course, Olivia is taken to Port Royal's garrison with the rest of the pirate crew because of her obvious connections to piracy, but she claims innocence to the charges. Will Norrington come to trust her word and help her escape her old life? Or will his vendetta against pirates get in the way? And if he does believe her, will anyone else in Port Royal society? Or will she be forced back into a wretched life on the Caribbean high seas?