The Belle of Eden

Death is an inevitability, that the pirate, Belle Rouge struggles to grasp as she gasps at the end of a rough, hempen noose. While an unpleasant end, she finds it all rather necessary, for she must escape the ghosts of her own creation. In the last moment, she's cut loose and picked out of the dirt by Commodore Craven, and his precocious, son Benjamin. They ask for Belle's assistance in their search for The Garden of Eden and the salvation it promises. A return trip for Belle, it sits heavy on her shoulders as they sail closer to the center for the events that changed her life forever, and ultimately found her at the gallows.
"Yet, I've done my fair share of wrong: I've killed, maimed, burned, manipulated, and seduced my way through life and into what must surely be my deserved end. However...none of my previous transgressions haunted me like the nagging thoughts of what I hadn't managed to accomplish."