Play Book Tag discussion

Speculative fiction, since this is set on a real island and alternative history. There are many footnotes in the one I read explaining this stuff! Plus, it's Jules Verne who wrote a lot of that.

A lighthouse has just been built on an island in the South Pacific 9 degrees north (mistake, it's actually 12 degrees north according to a footnote) to help stop shipwrecks as ships sail this ocean. Three weeks after three keepers are left to maintain it of a three month period, two are murdered by pirates who have been stranded on this island for the past three years, drawing ships in to be shipwrecked in order to get more food, etc. The surviving one finds shelter and also learns where they have supplies stashed. A ship manages to be beached with damage that can be mended, giving the pirates a way out. Will they escape before the Santa Fe returns with the alternate crew, or be caught (that ship is fully able to take the one the pirates have.)