Braella, a beautiful eighteen-year-old living in a Cornish seaport town in England in 1799, desperate to avoid an odious marriage to a wealthy older man, Scrove, disguises herself as a boy and runs away to sea. When Braella is discovered and pushed into Captain William Turner's cabin and looks at the handsomest man she has ever seen, she is determined to stay on board THE RAVEN. In the meantime, he makes her his cabin boy.