A young fellow called adrian pembroke is sent away to an english boarding school as the sixth novel in the rian & mouse series begins, revealing the origin story of how a unique and beautiful tale of two young sailor lads in 19th-century britain came to be... years later, rian and mouse have committed their lives to one another in every way at a time when being who they are, especially in the seafaring world, is a hanging offense. and now, on what would have been a typical atlantic crossing aboard the two ships of the blue water line, all has gone ahoo when war suddenly breaks out in the summer of 1812. this time, napoleon is not the foe; england and the united states are enemies once more, and our friends are tasked with foiling an evil slave ship named, of all things, the liberty.