Captain for Elizabeth

 When Captain Tom Cavendish began his voyage to the New World in the late 16th century, war between Spain and England was at its peak. In an effort to destabilize Spanish power, England's Queen Elizabeth had authorized maritime adventurers to attack Spanish merchant ships and seize their cargoes ― giving Captain Cavendish all the rope he needed to embark on a journey of reckless exploration and cold-blooded piracy.

Cavendish left England with three proud ships and soon he and his stalwart crew found themselves fighting hurricanes and wild seas, combatting tropical disease, eluding head hunters, engaging in countless naval battles, and  hijacking the treasures of captured Spanish ships ― pearls, silks from China, ginger, cloves and cinnamon from the Spice Islands, jewels from Burma ― and a ravishing Spanish widow who might just prove to be the one woman capable of winning the heart of the philandering captain. 

Written in the dashing panache of romances of the 1950's when rough and commanding men made women swoon, Jan Westcott has produced a notable historical romance that sweeps up the reader with the fever of all seamen who harken to the call of the restless sea and the lure of exotic love.