Do you like daring young women, carnivorous mermaids, jungle-dwelling lizard-people, Atlantis, ghost ships, unrequited love, shadows that suck the breath from your lungs, ruthless anachronism, witty banter, calculating ballistics trajectories? Huzzah! This will be your kind of story.

This is the first installment of The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, a year-long monthly pirate adventure serial. Read this short ebook to start the voyage -- then solve the puzzle and start the treasure hunt!