After Jamie Brackton's rescue by the pirate Bonty Labelle, (See Comes the Highwayman, 2020) Jamie convinces Bonty to end his pirating ways and instead smuggle guns to the Americans during the war of 1812. Alas, unable to escape his past Bonty soon finds himself locked in a cell in Savannah, Georgia.
His captor, an American Naval Officer, tells Bonty and Jamie that unless they help in locating the lost daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr, Theodosia...