Pirates, pirates, pirates and even more pirates, is all Emma is ever thinking of. Until the night before her tenth birthday. When you turn ten at Emmas orphanage, you have to leave and work on a farm and that is not Emmas pot of tea at all. When she gets a wrapped parcel of her friend, Richard, with a mysterious hand mirror, a small dagger and a letter from her birth mother, Emma decides to run away to become the pirate she always dreamt of ...... and to find her pirate mother.