Vampirates

This is a book centering around the exciting lives of Connor and Grace Tempest. Twins, they were thrown of their small rowboat after their fathers death caused them to leave their home and head for open sea, a place where their father said Vampirates (vampire pirates) roamed on their black, winged ship. After falling overboard in a tempest, Connor is rescued aboard The Diablo, a pirate ship led by the boisterous Captain Molluco Barbarro, but Grace is brought aboard a strange, black ship with sails like tattered wings. Her rescuer, a boy named Lorcan who seems to be only a few years older than herself, speaks and acts like he lived in a much older time, and the captain wears a mask that hides his face...and fangs. Soon, she discovers that she is in fact, on the very ship featured in her fathers chanty...the Vampirate ship. She discovers that the captain is a fair and kind vampire and that he keeps his crew under control and safe by a weekly Feast, in which the Donors (humans who chose to come aboard the ship) give enough blood to sustain the crew for another week until the next Feast. The only problem is the bloodthirsty (literally) and cruel 1st mate, Sidero. He is slowly builds a rebellion against the captain with some of the newer members of the crew, planning to take over the ship and turn it into a place where no human would leave alive. Grace is caught in the middle of it when Sidero takes her hostage. Meanwhile, Connor finds he has a love for piracy. Always naturally excellent in sports, he has an affinity for swordplay and a cunning mind for finding holes in an opponents defense. He makes good friends and quickly becomes a well liked member of the crew, but all the while he is concerned for his sister, Grace. He believes that she is alive, after his father came to him in a dream and told him that she is alive and well, but in a soon to be dangerous place. Now, after overhearing Sidero's plans in a local tavern he begs the captain to rescue his sister. The captain, being a kind and enthusiastic man, agrees not realizing that Sidero has been defeated and cast out. Now, the pirates are mounting an attack against the innocent vampires in daylight, planning to slaughter them all. Now it's up to Grace to save them.