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England, 1713—The height of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill, on the morning after his sixteenth birthday in possession of a mysterious three-lock box left to him by his father. The contents of the box could change Charlie’s life forever, but there’s a catch—the box is booby-trapped, and he doesn’t have the keys.

Aboard the Churchill, young Charlie must earn the respect of a skeptical captain and a disreputable crew who wil...