While their uncle is in England trying to avert war, eighteen-year-old Manly Treegate and his twelve-year-old brother, Peter, go to the Ohio frontier to prepare for war against Tecumseh's forces.
An orphan is pressed into service as a powderboy on a British ship and later into service on a Haitian pirate ship before he finally returns to relatives in Salem, Massachusetts.
After being visited by a man in 18th-century clothing who resembles his uncle and claims they have unfinished business, 15-year-old Nick finds himself aboard his uncle's pirate ship in the 1720's.
