Based on the true events revolving around Beaver Island| Michigan| and King James Strang... Elder Island. 1856. Peter Wiggentstein turned to the men of the fiveisland families around him and warned| "Tell nothing of this|" as the men all looked at the body of their former Reverend - gunned down just outside his own home -and a decision was made. They secretly buried the body on Graves Island| and the reign of America's first and only king ended; but for every end| there is always anew beginning| for an evil was born that night. Five families have always controlled the Island. Five families share the Island's fortune; five families share itscurse.