Mystery on Skull Island

The story takes place in 1724 in South Carolina. Rachel has joined her father in the city, learning that he plans to get remarried. Her prospective step-mother seems nice enough, but Rachel soon begins to have major suspicions about where the woman's loyalties lie when her father gets called away and it seems that her would-be step-mother has taken up with another man.

A man who could very well be a pirate and could have even been the one to cause her father a major financial loss. Rachel can't accuse the man, though, without proof, and Rachel and two friends believe they can find the proof on an island they have named Skull Island.

But finding that proof has its own dangers, though. The island itself is very dangerous, but what's worse is that the possible pirate catches them on the island, giving chase with the three friends running for their lives, trying to find somewhere to hide in the fog.

As always, there is a historical section which, in this case, explains some about the problem with piracy in South Carolina at that time.

For some reason I just couldn't really get into this story. It's not a bad story; it covers a subject not often covered in other novels, but it just isn't that incredibly interesting.

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