When 13 year old Ryan finds out he gets to live on a houseboat with an older cousin for the entire summer out in the middle of The Atchafalaya Basin he realizes that the adventures would be far better than anything he could ever conjure up in one of his stories. But once he understands that his older cousin and his cousin's friends are indeed searching for a long lost purposefully sunken pirate ship of gold in a hidden lagoon in the swamps then the...