Frenchman's Creek plot
"In her elegant world...a lady of ice...in his world of adventure...a woman of fire!"
Lady Dona is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Harry St. Columb, while the latter's sinister friend Lord Rockingham is ostentatious after her. Then a ship docks near their home, that of the French pirate Jean Benoit Aubrey. When Lady St. Columb meets him, she is immediately more than charmed by him. Aubrey unleashes a battle against a local, powerful landowner and when both Mr. St. Columb as Lord Rockingham attempt to persecute Aubrey, Lady St. Columb must make a choice.