A young lady who has been raised by an abusive stepmother since the death of her parents is overjoyed when she gets a chance to leave her home and travel to London with a cousin. This lady is extraordinarily beautiful and it seems that all the males she meets immediately want to rape her, including her cousin. She manages to get away from him but is then nabbed by a couple of guys (who think she is a prositute) and taken to a ship where she is raped by the dashing captain. The rest of the book is how they manage to overcome this awkward beginning and eventually find true love with each other--or at least true appreciation for each others physical attractiveness. To do this they have to overcome being forced to marry because the gal gets pregnant and all the rival males in America (where the captain lives) who want to forcibly take his new bride.[return]I don't know what to say about this book except that if this type of story about romance based on the purely physical appeals to you then give it a try.