Due to a great many factors, I feel obligated to inform all of you that I can no longer continue this story at the present time, as dear as it has been to me in the creation of it.

Among them is the first fact that Pirates of the Caribbean does not belong to me, and by pursuing it, I am keeping myself from tackling a much larger, and original project that could lead to a career as a novelist.

Another is that my fiancé has been incredibly ill for the last month, and I'm still waiting for things to settle down to the point where we're back to normal. That hope may be a long time in seeing fruition.

For those of you too impatient to wait a long time for an update that may or may not ever materialize, I offer to provide you with a capsule synopsis of how the story was supposed to turn out.

If you can bear with me, I'll probably come back to it occasionally to finish what I've started.

Thank you all for being such loyal readers. I felt I owed it to all of you to let you know what was going on, since so many authors just lose interest and never offer explanation for their drifting away.

Desperately searching for more rum,

Romanicat