When lightning strikes Lesley's car, she passes out and wakes up on the Lyrical, a twenty-four gun frigate, in 1711, where the captain looks like her fiancé—except for one fine asset, the cannon in his britches. Though disguised as a cabin boy, danger awaits her at every turn.Captain Harlan Sterford turned pirate to restore his fortunes, but his ship leaks and the crew is mutinous. When Lesley appears on the deck of his ship resembling his dead wife and carrying the toy horse he carved for his son, he believes she is a ghost or a demon wraith.