Synopsis: Crossed Swords, Warring Passions - Miranda Hathaway - golden-haired, iron-willed. To save her lost brother, she will sail to the ends of the earth... even become a swashbuckling buccaneer. Following the strange course set by the mysterious Dutchman, a mystical sea captain, Miranda's guest will take her from Spanish galleons to perfumed harems, from the intrigue-rife ballrooms of Civil War London (English Civil War, not the American) to the steamy shores of primitive Barbados. Kit Steele - devilishly handsome Cavalier swordsman and sea captain. The idealistic adventurer who awakened Miranda's passions now would seek to win her heart... only after he had earned her blackest vengeance. Is he her truest friend in a world turned upside-down? Or has she no friends but pistol and sword. (from the back cover of the Tor Books edition)