The Queen's Corsair

No-one in the small Devonshire farming community expected delicate Mary Newman to live to maturity, let alone to marry. She surprised them when she eloped with a young mariner, who carried her off to London. Mary settled down to married life, believing that the romance of her elopement would be all the excitement she would ever know and that her future would be one of contented domesticity. But her husband's name was Francis Drake, and her future was to be different from anything she could have imagined. "One of Britain's foremost writers of historical sagas..." - Good Housekeeping