By blood, by wind, by water and wave, loyal as one, or a watery grave...

An oath to build a nation of pirates, or so Captain Bloodwind, the Lord of the Shattered Isles, believes. He doesn't want much, after all...just everything. And what he can't have, he will destroy.

Cynthia Flaxal knows this first hand, for he's destroyed everything she's ever loved. But Cynthia vows revenge. She's no warrior, and thanks to Bloodwind's murdering her parents, she'll never be a seamage like her father. But she can build ships, like her grandfather did. She'll build ships to outsail any corsair, and use them to starve the pirate nation to death. With the help of a bedraggled seasprite, a crippled old sailor, and an old ship's cook, who could stand against her?

But Bloodwind covets these new ships for himself, and Odea, goddess of the sea, has her own plans for Cynthia Flaxal. So, when the ships finally set sail, both Captain Bloodwind and Odea have their sights set on Cynthia...

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