The Caribbean Sea, 1675. Jacquotte Delahaye, the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy tavern owner, dreams of life at sea rather than marriage. After a pirate she loves returns to the waters, she disguises herself as Jacques and becomes a respected dockworker in Haiti. For the next twenty years, Jacquotte raids the Caribbean, making enemies and amassing a fortune in stolen gold. When her fellow pirates decide to increase their profits by entering the slave trade, Jacquotte turns away from piracy and the pursuit of riches. Risking her life in one deadly skirmish after another, she instead begins to plot a war of liberation. 

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