Compass and Blade

A highly original and beguiling YA fantasy debut, Compass and Blade is a rip-roaring high seas adventure and coming-of-age tale, filled with shipwrecks, romance, magic and betrayal

It is said that the people of Rosevear are lawless – that they steal from the ships that wash up on their shores. The islanders see it differently. They call it survival.

18-year-old Mira is a wrecker: one of seven chosen to swim out to the wrecked ships and plunder whatever the sea will give them. Mira’s blood ignites when she is in the ocean; the song of the sea beckoning her into deeper waters. But Rosevear needs her, and she could never abandon her home. Until one evening when lightning splits the sky and the Watch descend, taking Mira’s father away.

With the help of a handsome stranger, Mira will have to travel across the Fortunate Isles in search of a way to buy her father’s freedom. But to survive the journey she will need to learn who to trust – as securing her own future, and that of her island, will come at a high price.