"Beauvallet" by Georgette Heyer (Preowned Paperback)

'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet's exploits on the high seas have made him an equal to Sir Francis Drake and a favourite of the Queen.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. With his decision to stop at nothing to make Dominica his bride, he may have just taken on his most challenging adventure yet.