Under the reign of Louis XIV, Marion becomes the ward of a strange and disgraced baronet. She soon learns that her guardian is a corsair and she finds herself associated to his crimes, for which she is arrested and send to a penal colony in the Caribbean.
Upon her arrival, she will have to fight in a world of danger ruled by buccaneers and pirates.
- This is much more than a pirate book. Of course, there are attacks, traps and trials but Marion is not going to get out of your mind!
Serge Brussolo was born in 1951 and is a prolific writer. Gifted with a surprising imagination, he is considered by the critics to be an exceptional storyteller and the best in his genre, somewhere between Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark.