in this book alex and his friends end up getting stuck on an island that has a constant storm after they fell off the waterfall in the island of legends. there they meet three scientists, who help them survive. while there they fix their boat and are able to escape. when they get back they find that artime went through a battle, and meghan fought in it because she volunteered to stay behind. samheed comes to help meghan fight. meghan then saved samheed from general blair when he miraculously survived from the first one, and you find out that he joined forces with high priest aaron stowe. meghan dies in the process. in the book, there are a few chapters that are about the pirates from the island of legends. they have the one slave who was good friends with copper, sky and crow's mom, draw a picture of the person that helped copper escape. he does, and they recognize him as alex, so they raid the palace, and accidentally capture aaron, and they then send him off to the island of shipwrecks. and they learn that they have sisters.