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 EmmaA's orphanage you have to leave and work on a farm and that is not EmmaA's 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.