Why do they call it the Sea of Thieves? Ask ten different pirates and you'll get twenty different answers. This is one pirate's answer, and a warning to any who seek it out.

In another world, the journey ends the same way. But how the travelers get there is quite different. In this collection of shorts, we take a look at what might have happened to the characters of Scorched Earth had things been a little different from the beginning.

Fresh from kowtowing - and a good deal more - to the Empress of China, Flashman finds himself in dire peril from enemies that have pursued him across not only the world but time itself. Fortunately, he also has the perfect way of running from them in the form of a time-traveling Englishman in a little blue box and his lovely lady friend.