The time is present day. Lilo Stewart lives in a seaside town off the coast of Florida, and her whole town is buzzing about the news-there is said to be old fashioned pirates sailing the sea, that seem to have no idea that the time of pirates is long over. Lilo doesn't think of this as a threat, that is, until she is abducted by pirates and forced to stay on their ship, along with her friend Emily. Lilo is determined to escape the ship and return to her normal life... but is that really what she wants? As the pirates start to need her help to find a lost treasure, Lilo may be forced to accept her fate... as a pirate.

Nerdy Dakota Evans makes the biggest mistake of her life by falling in love with her best friend, Aaron Ford. Despite coming from entirely different cliques in school, will their relationship have a chance? *** In a high school where everyone belongs to cliques, nerdy and boyish Dakota Evans' friendship with basketball jock, Aaron Ford, becomes a big issue. Aaron's highly protective of Dakota and doesn't realize that she's in love with him. With their friendship eventually going on the rocks, will Aaron finally realize his true feelings for Dakota before it's too late? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]]