"Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spain" to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada у Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him Drake"s equal and a favorite of the Queen. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion"s den. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Beauvallet (Georgette Heyer)