The middle of the seventeenth century. Spain’s hegemony in the West Indies has already been broken, and an iron pirate of the Queen, Sir Francis Drake, played a decisive role in this. Young John Mc-Guinness, heading to the New World for the first time, was expecting adventures. Only he didn’t know how much blood and gold, lies and even sorcery would be among them.
Christian, a girl born on a pirate ship and raised by a goat, will teach John to understand the astonishing romance of the Caribbean Sea—where every one is a pirate, but not everyone has the courage to raise the “Jolly Roger.”
A chase for gold will bring them to the Island of the Demon, where more new riddles await…