The Golden Hawk

Kit Geraldo, master of the Seaflower, was a man without a name. Because the shameful secret of his birth was shrouded in mystery somewhere in Cadiz, he had turned to piracy as the only means of winning power and love. and revenge. Swift as a peregrine falcon, straight as the mast of a brigantine, with eyes as blue as the waters of the Caribbean, he took what he wanted throughout the ports of the New World. Spanish Dons shuddered and crossed themselves when they spoke of him, whispered as they told of the volcanic fury that drove him ever onward, leaving a trail of broken ships and desirous women in his wake. This is his story- of his lifelong search for revenge on Don Luis del Toro, the Spanish grandee who had killed his mother and touched his life with unspeakable horror. it was a search that was to take Kit from the Old World to the New, from the buccaneer harbors of Sainte Domingue, Porto Bello and Cul-de-Sac to the gray, grim walled city of Cartagena in Spanish South America. The Golden Hawk is also the story of the women who loved Kit- Rouge, the English gentlewoman turned pirate, Rouge of the sea-green eyes and flaming hair, whose treatment at the brutal hands of Don Luis had left a scar upon her that made her turn against the entire masculine sex. She fought Kit with knife and lash and pistol, goaded to redoubled fury by the slowly dawning recognition that here was one man she could not master. it is the story of Bianca del Toro, wedded half against her will to Don Luis and loving Kit with all the warmth of her Spanish nature- Bianca whose great love was to bring her pain, anguish and ecstasy.


Genre: Historical