The newlywed bride of a Creole aristocrat, Celia Vallerand is abducted from a New Orleans-bound schooner. Believing her husband dead, the French beauty fears above all the dashing privateer--called the Griffin--who pays a kings ransom to claim her and risks capture to possess her. But the adventurer guards a shocking secret that could deny him the love of this woman who stirs his passions and enslaves his heart. Reissue.