A seventy-four gun square rigger is sailing the Atlantic Ocean searching for British naval ships to capture. Its red banner holds bright gold letters spelling out REVENGE. But its crew, all able seamen who had been cruelly mistreated by the British Admiralty, find themselves with a mascot and stow-a-way: Max, a wire haired fox terrier and Zoe Eaton, his owner, who is far away from her home in New Haven, Connecticut. How all this ends is surprising.

Gerald G. Hotchkiss is a retired magazine publisher who has written several children's and young adult books including: Emily and the Lost City of Ergup, the first Emily story, Emily in Khara Koto and Claire at the Crocker Farm, both from Sunstone Press, Life Begins at Seventy and Music Makers, A Guide to Singing in a Chorus from Sunstone Press, and has illustrated One Hundred Million Wombats.