High on a clifftop on the coast of Colville stands a lighthouse. Leaning over and completely deserted. Ian, a seventeen-year-old runaway thinks he found in it the perfect hideaway. He could not have been more wrong! The lighthouse holds secrets that have been kept silent for a long time. Ian runs into a bunch of pirates who appear as ghosts at night. He s not allowed to leave Colville before he settles "the final battle between the pirates and the King s vessels.