![]() ![]() ![]() Proper young Quakeress Hannah locks horns with rough-talking Captain Spark, who expects her to carry her weight by helping their cook and keeping watch. After a long, harrowing day clinging to a grate and battered by the sun, Hannah is fished out of the water by the Dissuade and forced to sail toward England with the British crew and its imperious yet devilishly handsome captain, Sir Daniel Spark. Later the American vessel is blown out of the water by a French man o’war. Dissuade, and forced to turn over any supposed Englishmen. ![]() First the Molly Claridge is boarded by the British frigate, H.M.S. Boredom will soon be the least of her worries. To while away the dull hours, Hannah composes a list of qualities she wants in a husband. In the early 1800s, seventeen-year-old Hannah Whittier is traveling by ship down the coast from her Quaker home in Massachusetts to her brother’s house in Charleston, South Carolina. ![]()
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