About the book: year / Young Maribel Thomson runs away from home to go with her friends, young explorers, on a trip to Gibraltar. Also, the ambitious, eccentric journalist Rebecca Maguire secretly enters their ship, dreaming of becoming famous thanks to this expedition. During a storm in the ocean, Maribel falls overboard and only miraculously survives. She is picked up by an Italian merchant ship, whose captain, a noble sailor, Vincente Salvatore, charms the young Englishwoman and falls in love with her. But there are many obstacles in the way of this love: explorer friends captured by Spanish bandits, and now they need help; Maribel's father, an English lord, who does not want to see a poor sailor as his daughter's husband; and the girl’s admirer, a rich baronet who dreams of getting the rebellious Englishwoman. Maribel and Vincent will have to go through many tests, swim many miles and fight for the right to be together forever.