The Stolen Girl

The legend of Aim e Dubucq de Rivery, has survived on three continents for more than two hundred years. The Stolen Girl tells the first part of her extraordinary story, her adolescence on the Caribbean island of Martinique, and her voyage to Paris where her hopes of finding a husband are shattered. Resigned to live as an old maid at the ripe age of eighteen, she decides to become a nun and sets sail to visit her relatives on Martinique one last time. On the journey, she meets and falls in love with a dashing young Scotsman. But fate had other plans for Aim e, ones that were foretold by an African Obeah woman when she was fourteen years old and the prophecy comes true when she is abducted by Algerian pirates and given to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire as a "gift girl".