Owen, a stowaway on the pirate ship the Hurricane's Eye, has a past he's ready to forget and a relentless feeling that he has found the place he's destined to be. The crew is less than pleased about his presence until the captain takes Owen to Minerva, a magical woman who tattoos an equally magical dragon visage on his arm.He soon discovers that the tattoo is more than a simple art piece and that the beast on his arm has intertwined his soul with Owen's. Suddenly, he's thrown into the center of a generations-old hunt for the dragon's phoenix soulmate before a rival pirate crew finds it and uses it to control the seas.While battling the dragon over control of his own body, Owen and the crew of the Hurricane's Eye must overcome all odds and return the Phoenix's still-beating heart to her human host and complete her soul before it's too late.