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BOSTON, 1795 Merchant sea captain Reese Thackeray returns home to find a young woman in charge of the counting house with which he does business, a business he considers to be the bailiwick of men. Accustomed to being in command, Thackeray soon discovers that he does not command Marin Sutton when a disagreement arises over his contract. She is not the naive woman he, at first, takes her to be but is annoyingly clever, and to the methodical Thackeray, much too bold and impulsive. Marin is quite certain, however, that the charismatic captain is every bit the chauvinistic cad she takes him to be. Unfortunately, Thackeray is the most knowledgeable in the ways of the treacherous Barbary pirates, and she needs his help to settle a personal matter in Algiers. When the captain refuses to help her, Marin devises an audacious plan that puts her in the center of a diplomatic incident, and she finds herself on a dangerous mission to the Barbary Coast under Thackeray’s command.