Mayor Dae O'Donnell of Duck, NC runs into the ghost of a dead pirate ancestor as she searches for the killer of her firen, Mayor Sandi Foxx. Pirate Rafe Masterson, scourge of the Outer Banks, wants his relative to prove that he was innocent of the crimes he was hanged for hundreds of years ago and he's willing to stay in Dae's life until he finds the truth.