Daily survival is a battle for Raykin Smythe, a fifteen-year-old cabin boy aboard a Sardonian slave ship.
For years, he has learned to stay a second or two ahead of trouble.
When the ten-ship armada raids the island of Rocky Cove for slaves, they are decimated by a little, pale girl named Minty Nothingmore.
The Captain and the crew are now dead Raykin flees for his life with a handful of the surviving raiders.
They must sail The Last Red Ship to Sardonia and tell the king of a weapon s.