Captain Roxana Malaventura is a dangerous woman, a condemned pirate and an unreliable narrator. Vengeful, ruthless, capricious and possibly quite mad, she dines and dresses superbly while pursuing the most evil man alive and accidentally rescuing an actual Princess. The Spanish Main is littered with human flotsam - the battered remnants of the 17th Century's European wars - and from the wreckage Captain Malaventura has assembled the extraordinary...