Emily Skrutskie

Three weeks have passed since Cassandra Leung pledged her allegiance to ruthless pirate-queen Santa Elena and set free Bao, the sea monster Reckoner she'd been forced to train. The days as a pirate trainee are long and grueling, but it's not the physical pain that Cas dreads most. It's being forced to work with Swift, the pirate girl who broke her heart. But Cas has even bigger problems when she discovers Boa is not the only a monster swimming free....

When thirteen-year-old Swift Kent's stepmother abandons her family for adventure on the high seas, Swift makes it her mission to bring her back to save her family from starvation. But Swift learns there may be another way to help her family, one that takes her far away from everything she's ever known.