Neptune's Daughters

On a holiday in the Bahamas a college student buys an old sea chest filled with ancient papers. She discovers these papers are original diaries, newspaper articles, letters and even a spy dossier written by and about famous historical female pirates. These original historical documents were collect first by a 1600 pirate, Captain Johnson, then added to over the centuries by his island family. The college student protects and adds to this collection even as an adult, a college professor. As she goes through them, file by file, the life story of ten infamous female pirates unfolds starting with a vengeful 1300 French wife turned pirate and ending with a 1940 Chinese pirate and spy.