When the Chrono Compass activates without warning, Emma and her team are pulled into the Caribbean's Golden Age of Piracy. But this is no ordinary voyage. Captain Eleanor Thorne has been sailing the same route for forty-seven lifetimes, trapped in a temporal loop, waiting for four teenagers from the future to arrive.Their destination: Chronos Isle, a sanctuary that exists outside normal time, holding the largest deposit of temporal energy on Earth. But the Architects want it too, led by the charismatic Captain Sharpe, whose philosophy challenges everything the team believes about protecting history.As they race against Architect pirates to reach the island, the team faces impossible questions: Who decides which timeline is "correct"? Is free will worth preserving if it allows suffering? And when the mission demands sacrifice, how much is too much?Captain Thorne and her navigator Adrian will both make the ultimate choice to save the guardians. The island will be sealed. The archive data will be secured. But the cost keeps rising.And waiting in the next mission: Japan, 1603. A mountain shrine. A 300-year-old assassin. And a prophecy that says only three of them will return. Book 3 of the Chrono Explorers series raises the stakes with maritime adventure, moral complexity, and sacrifices that will change everything.