Over the years, Valerie is reluctantly brought into her husband's fantasy; only she is the one who has to fulfill it. Her biggest concern is how will he treat her after it's over?
Fourteen-year-old Jim Caldwell's father apprenticed his second son to go to sea as cabin boy to the HMS Royal Sovereign's captain, Sir Edmund Doman, with the best intentions of giving his son a future in the British Navy in the waning years of the eighteenth century. Little did he or Jim know what a "sailors' poke" was and how that would apply to Jim.