 A trip to the docks to visit the handsome sea captain Sir Francis Drake sets the Court in a flutter, and when Grace's fellow Maid of Honour, the vain Sarah Bartelmy mysteriously disappears, Lady Grace assumes that she has run away to marry the pirate captain.However, a trail of clues leads the Lady Pursuivant to suspect a kidnapping!With the help of her tumbler friend Masou, she stows away on Drake's ship, determined to save her friend's reputation.