This is an adventure story of three parts, and a treasure hunt over three Centuries, from a misty Pennine Village to a remote island in the Caribbean sea.
The story starts with the part factual, part fictional story of William Kidd. From his early life to his violent demise in 1701. William Kidd was a Buccaneer in the 17th century who became notorious for the largest ever pirate raid. Captain Kidd was prominent in his later life as a shipping owner and business man, but nothing is written of his early years. In 1698 he was commissioned by a group of secret investors including the then King of England, to rid the Indian ocean of pirates, attacking ships of the east India company. He was given a letter of Marque to attack ships of pirates and enemies of the crown, ships such as the French and one Robert Culliford, an old adversary of Williams, with all proceeds to be split between the crew and the investors. But things went disastrously wrong and William Kidd was branded a Pirate. After his crew mutinied, William fled with a hand full of men, taking his and the crowns portion of the captured treasure. He hid the treasure with a plan to buy his freedom and save his neck from the gallows. William Kidd was hung for piracy in 1701 after a one-sided trial, in which the very papers which would free him went missing. To this day his treasure, some 75 barrels of gold, silver and jewels has never been found. Although maps and his ship have been discovered the treasure remains allusive.
After William Kidd's death the story picks up with his great nephew Gordon Reeves, the grandson of his only sibling Mary Kidd. Gordon is tasked with traveling to America to foresee the closure of his great uncles business by his aging Grandmother Mary. What seems like a simple task to close his Uncles legitimate shipping business, becomes a treasure hunt with clues left by his great uncle. But unbeknown to the nephew, he is lured into a carefully set trap by Sam O'Rourke whose father ran the shipping business after Williams death.
Fast forward to 1972 and two children Bradly and Jemma are playing in the woods by a huge Hall built in the form of a Castle. They find a secret tunnel which leads to an underground room. The children find an old book in the room, the ships log of one Captain William Kidd. After reading a section which tells of treasure hidden on an island called Nosy Be. The children dismiss the book as just fantasy. Ten years later, a TV news story of treasure found on an island called Nosy Be, brings the two children now adults back together. The two children reunite and after discovering the book was real, Bradly and Jemma, naively embark on a treasure hunt in the Caribbean. A treasure hunt fraught with danger begins.
