"When one man's treasure is another man's curse." Nikki Landry is turning eleven years old, and is looking forward to riding her bike to school. That is until it falls apart. Papa can't afford a new one. Is she doomed to ride the smelly old school bus from now on? Hearing of an old pirate ship, and a legend about long-ago pirates burying treasure on a nearby swamp island, Nikki sees a way out. But when she makes a birthday wish for the pirate's gold, things go terribly wrong. Did her wish trigger an ancient curse? Join Nikki and her friends as they find themselves sailing away aboard a haunted schooner with ghostly pirates into the Gulf of Mexico … and into the year eighteen fourteen. How will they ever find their way back home?