The Outlaw Heart — Rosetta Stowe

Jeanette Verlaine--lovely, passionate, unfulfilled--fleeing a Santo Domingo slave uprising and a cruel marriage with her handsome black maidservant, Bliss, meets a bold privateer with whom she discovers the deep tides of her sensuality.

Bizarre events separate them and she travels eastward, weds a wealthy English sea captain, is captured by Malaccan brigands, enters into a strange three-way relationship, and in an explosive finale is mysteriously brought together with the love of her life--the one man who can, with the sword of love, tame her lawless heart.