All lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona.
A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down–on–his–luck preacher —
“Piracy charge—Joppa’s ancestor? What…when?”
“Why, for being part of Blackbeard’s pirate crew…in the early 1700s…” — Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting there’s something missing … buried. Soon the two have had a near–fatal brush with smugglers—and together they’ve unearthed the truth: about a pirate’s history, about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable women—one in the past, and one in the present.
