Susannah Goes To Sea

With her rent two weeks in arrears, Susannah Holyfield crawls out the window of her boarding house and sets out in search of excitement and romance. Her escape foiled, she ends up in a Boston jail in the company of a number of ladies of ill repute and a cell full of drunken sailors. There, she meets ruggedly handsome sea captain Andrew Buchanan. The captain is charmed by Susannah's adventurous spirit, but exasperated by her talent for finding trouble. Before long, the two have fallen in love and set a wedding date. Andrew sets out on a voyage to Jamaica, only to discover that Susannah has somehow slipped aboard as a stowaway. Susannah's dreams of high adventure and passion come breathtakingly true as she sails away on the tall, fast clipper with Captain Buchanan, whose exasperated but loving effort to rein in his high-spirited wife requires almost as many sound, hard spankings across his muscular knee as it does romantic moments. Before the voyage ends, Susannah has rounded the Horn in a shrieking gale, been shipwrecked and castaway on a windswept exotic island in the Pacific, and kidnapped by white slavers in early San Francisco's seamy Barbary Coast.