An introduction to the world of Maelstrom, this prequel set nearly twenty years before the upcoming first novel. A young woman falls in love with a secretive privateer, and is left behind with love's consequences. Frivelous, learns the value of hard work and surviving heartbreak. Will he return? Did he abandon her? Can a girl who can't read run a business to save her son from re-living her povertous childhood? Join us for a brief journey to a port city in 1700s England.