When a family friend, Grace, opens a sailing club on Lake Champlain
at the former site of the Gemstone Islands Resort, Nancy, Bess, and
George are invited to enjoy a few days of boating before the club’s
official grand opening. But when they arrive, they learn there have been
some strange things happening on the property, from missing items to
holes dug all over the yard. Is someone trying to sabotage the club, and
could it have anything to do with the fire that destroyed the old
resort twenty years ago?
As Nancy tries to pry information from the tight-lipped locals, all
clues lead back to Captain Richard Stone, the enigmatic Revolutionary
War–era pirate whose tavern once stood on the same site as the resort
and sailing club. Legend has it that Captain Stone’s ghost still haunts
the property, guarding the treasure he buried there. But it isn’t a
ghost that punches a hole in Nancy’s sailboat, leaving her and the girls
to sink in the middle of the lake when an unexpected summer storm rolls
in.
Unraveling the mystery of Captain Stone’s treasure will be the key to
finding out who’s been sabotaging Grace’s club. But first, Nancy and
her friends will have to make it back to shore in one piece…