SHE DEFIED THE WORLD TO SHARE THE PASSION OF HER ADVENTUROUS PRIVATEER. Selena Haktead challenged society and followed her daring privateer, Brian McCord, though it was forbidden for a beautiful young woman to voyage aboard a Confederate gunship. It was also forbidden for an unmarried woman to bear a love child -- but she braved society's scorn and kept her baby born of her great passion. Selena resisted even when men of power at the decadent French court insisted that she bow to the Emperor's desire. But Fate sentenced her to slavery in North Africa and a painful separation from the man she adored...