Angélique leaves the king and the court to try to find her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac. In the Mediterranean she embarks on a galley which is soon attacked by Barbaresque pirates. Angélique jumps overboard, not knowing that the pirates?chief, the Rescator, is in fact Peyrac. Rescued by a man named d'Escrainville, she has to fight his advances. Furious, he decides sell her at the Candia slave market.