On his way home from Kitty Hawk, Buttermouse is blown off course by one of the nastiest storms he had ever seen. It had been hours since he’d seen land, and he suspected he was miles off course somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. “If I only had a compass,” he thought. Looking for a place to res... more

On his way home from Kitty Hawk, Buttermouse is blown off course by one of the nastiest storms he had ever seen. It had been hours since he’d seen land, and he suspected he was miles off course somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. “If I only had a compass,” he thought. Looking for a place to rest his ears, the flying mouse finds himself on board the Sails of Plunder – the cursed vessel of the Caribbean. In spite of the curse, a dark misty cloud hovering above, Buttermouse remains on board the pirate ship to keep a running account of his new and adventurous life. In his journal, Buttermouse writes of life on board a pirate ship, Captain Pillage’s nasty deeds, historically accurate methods of piracy, and an encounter with the Barracuda – a ruthless female bandit. And at the crux of the story (the haunting of Captain Pillage and his band of cutthroats), Buttermouse boards a ghost ship inhabited by a crew of revenging dead souls in the form of walking, talking skeletal remains. Survival hangs in the balance.