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John Pearce, having negotiated the highly questionable sale of both French prizes taken in The Devil to Pay, has kept HMS Flirt, as well as the crew and the wounded Henry Digby in Brindisi which is headed for Naples to see his enthusiast. In an unpleasant journey he seeks to work out a way to best both Admiral Sir William Hotham and Captain Ralph Barclay, men who are his sworn enemies. All his computations are tossed into turmoil when he discovers that Emily is pregnant which, while it is a cause for enjoyment, is also grounds to worry; she actually is still wedded to Ralph Barclay and by the laws and regulations of that time period he can assert the kid as his own.
