A fantastic story blending pirate legend with historical fact and Terry Deary's vividly imagined characters. It's set in Nevis Island in the Caribbean, 1680. Red-legs Greaves has been a slave, a pirate and rich sugar planter. Now he's a prisoner waiting to be hanged for his piracy. His only friend is a slave girl called Lou. Can she do anything to save him? It would take a miracle.