Number five in the series. A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched—to a woman and a ship! The woman is Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun ketch 'Alacrity', bound for the Bahamas and a bloody game of cat and mouse with the pirates who ply the lunatic winds there. Sure that a powerful Bahamian merchant is behind a scourge of piracy, Lewrie runs afoul of the Royal Governor—who holds the most precious hostage of all. 1993.