<b>Do you hear the distant drums? And what about that weird screaming ... </b><br/> Emma Blackwell used to love mermaids. Jonah Blackwell used to love pirates. And William Blackwell tried to be a good captain. Which he <i>would</i> be, if he could get his twin brother and sister to stop fighting long enough to sail their boat, the <i>Peregrine</i>, across the bay. But after the Blackwells see a phantom ship, barely survive a terrible storm, and then mysteriously wake up with seaweed in their mouths, everything changes. <br/> They're becalmed in fog. They run aground on a strange island. They hear distant drums, and their weird adventure begins! The Blackwells face zombie pirates, terrifying mermaids, and a shipwrecked group of cursed ship's figureheads, including a Roman gladiator and an English knight, all led by the strange dolphin-boy, Finn. <br/> It'll make a great sea yarn one day, if they can just survive it.