Creek half-breed and survivor of the Creek Indian War, Joie Kincaid and the nemesis she rescued from certain death after the Massacre at Fort Mims are kidnapped from a tea room in London. Joie awakens with amnesiaafter having been struck on the headto find herself in the hold of a ship sailing to the pirate Gasparillas lair in Charlotte Harbour and bound to a man she finds strangely familiar.