An exuberant action comedy, featuring fearless Capitola Black, a self-styled female Don Quixote, and the prototype of innumerable adventure heroines.

Rescued from life on the streets in New York by a southern plantation owner, with his own reasons for befriending her, Capitola is too active and adventurous to settle for the life of a southern belle. Besides, the neighborhood is infested with evil-doers–Black Donald, the notorious bandit, and Gabriel Le Noir, the owner of the plantation adjoining–combine to make her life full of excitement and peril.

A book full of surprises and delight for any reader, as the hidden hand of an all-wise God becomes remarkably apparent.

Character themes in this story: pride and willfulness.