Within a Captain's Power

<b>Never underestimate the power of a pirate . . .</b><P>Captain James Steele is duty bound to capture the privateer <i>Scarlet Night </i>and bring her rebellious crew to England to hang. Then he will leave his majesty's service make an upstanding marriage and join the landed gentry. But the winds of fate are blowing the straitlaced commander utterly off course. <P>Once aboard James comes face to face with a pirate boy who is in reality fierce desperate-and gorgeous-Samantha Christian on the run from a sadistic Virginia plantation owner. With her identity unbound the good captain dutifully takes her under his personal command whereupon decorum goes out the porthole. But while his heart is lost to Samantha by the time they reach England her noose still awaits. Now James's sense of duty will be severely tested. As for Samantha she has a plan and a duty of her own . . .