Although not strictly speaking a pirate, Cassandra is an important character in the books. A passenger on Dream Chaser, the twenty-eight year old woman from St. Georges Town in Bermuda met Captain Björn Gunnarsson, while she was living and working as a seamstress in Nassau. They took to each other instantly and were soon married. At the beginning of the first book she is hoping to be transported back to her home in Bermuda after the news had arrived that Woodes Rogers was on his way there to reclaim it on behalf of the Crown. Before the vessel could take her to her destination it encountered a lone Spanish treasure galleon and was enveloped by the mysterious fog during the chase. Cassandra detests the pirate way of life, only tolerating it for the sake of her husband, but she has done her best to integrate herself into the crew since the ship strayed from its path. Although she was born a free woman, she is aware that her ancestors were of the Ambundu people, who arrived in the New World on slave ships in the 1620s from Reino de Angola, north of the river Kwanza. Cassandra is an intuitive woman, who has a knack for predicting danger, but, like her namesake in Greek mythology, her warnings often go unheeded.
“Cassandra Baines turned to face him and smiled. She had a slender face with high cheekbones; a face which seemed to smile even when it wasn’t. Captain Ironside called her his African princess, despite the fact she was a free Bermudian who had never seen that far off continent. It was not something she minded, as she had always harboured a fondness for the land of her ancestors in her heart.”