More recently, young Sylvia Fairmont was the queen of the aristocratic drawing rooms of New Orleans. And now she is an exile, covered in the shame of illegal origin, the despised and cursed heir to the terrible glory of her father, the ruthless pirate Laffite. Now she has no one to expect help from... No one - except the noble Hilton Cortina. The only person who can support a lovely girl in trouble and even risk his life for her. The only man who can bring her the wonderful gift of tenderness and passion, true love and true happiness...