• Sent to sea to escape religious tyranny, Tom reaches the Virgin Islands before being cast adrift on a mysterious Island, here he comes face to face with his destiny.
• Fleeing Bloody Mary’s religious tyranny Tom ends up in the New World, shipwrecked, cast afloat and marooned on a cursed island; here he comes face to face with his destiny. 

SYNOPSIS:

A privateer named the Red Grouse, captained by a Captain Douglas Murphy intercepts a Portuguese merchant ship. They sink the vessel and take on board two hostages, which consist of an Arabian merchant and his daughter. Later they enter, what is now known as the American Virgin Islands. As they pass, Secret Harbour they become the victims of a surprise attack by a French galleon, captained by a Captain Jacques de-Sores and the Grouse is sunk. Despite this, twelve-year-old Tom, the captain's cabin boy and one of the hostages, named Mayya the Arabian merchant's daughter, also twelve, manages to escape being drowned. They are now marooned on a mysterious mist covered island.

Their journey through this Island introduces them to both the good and the bad elements of the island. Their human weaknesses and frailties are tested, and they learn life's cruel lesson about pain and separation. On their journey, they became embroiled in a struggle between good and evil, the dominance of evil and the advantages of the collective good. In the story, the manifestation of 'evil' is Mowang, the king of devils and his pet Wei-Ju. The 'good' are materialized in the Tutu fairy-like beings, the Black Witch Ameera, the Ceboney girl Arawa and others. Mowang lives in a cave overlooking Brewer's beach, where it remains to this day. Many places are named after the heroes and heroines in this story.

This is a mythological history about the Island’s past, now named St Thomas a part of the USVI. Ironically, the loss of the great evil resulted in the disappearance of the great good. The Ceboney and Arawa people no longer live there, they are all gone now. Gone too, are the ancient mystical creatures, only their names exist, like some epitaph to those who lived in those long-lost forgotten times.