History's deadliest pirates. A stolen invention. And a future hanging by a thread.

When a rogue time traveler unites history's most feared pirates, the fight for a buried timefold core could decide the fate of the future.

Eli Whitbridge has summoned a pirate armada from across the centuries—Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Rachel Wall, Henry Morgan—each torn from their own era and bent to his will. Backed by his billionaire stepfather, Fenton Whitbridge, Eli is hunting a vault hidden deep beneath Cutthroat Island. Inside lies a forbidden prototype of Max Sterling's own design: a stabilized timefold core capable of rewriting the laws of time.

What Eli seeks isn't treasure. It's dominion over history.

As cannon fire pounds the jungle and loyalties shift like tide and sand, Max, Chloe, and Nick must outwit the most feared pirates who ever lived, solve a vault no one was meant to open, and face a future where Max himself may be the one to break time apart.

Because the true curse of Cutthroat Island... is what happens if its secret is unleashed.