Princess Cassandra of Araluen has already survived one assassination attempt, but when a second attempt proves that the deadly Scorpion Cult is involved, Hal, his Heron Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan are dispatched to ensure her safety by launching a preemptive strike against Scorpion Mountain and its cult of assassins.

Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.

While Connor faces trouble in the form of an obnoxious new crewmate, Grace, his twin sister, seeks out a vampirate guru who might be able to heal their dear friend Lorcan's blindness.

Discover The Adventurers Quartet, a riveting blend of Regency-era high seas adventure, intrigue and romance, only from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens. His to cherish Declan Frobisher chose Lady Edwina Delbraith as his wife. Scion of a bold, seafaring dynasty, he's accustomed to getting his way- Edwina would be the woman who graced his arm, warmed his bed and remained safely at home when he returned to sea. But once the...

Andy Chase convinces John McPhee to join him, both in his search for work and then on a forty-two-day run on the SS Stella Lykes through the Panama Canal and down the west coast of South America, where the ship's routines are interrupted by pirate attacks and the discovery of stowaways.

"Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal"--

The fictional diary of a ten-year-old boy who, in 1716 sets off from North Carolina to become a sailor, but ends up a pirate instead.

"A Short History of Seafaring is a unique compendium of awe-inspiring tales of epic sea voyages that always involve great feats of seamanship, navigation, endurance, and ingenuity" --Publisher.

"As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that...

Young farm boy Ely becomes a cabin boy on a ship headed for London, a route he hopes will lead to his disappeared older brother, and following a cryptic clue to his brother's whereabouts, he experiences romance and faces a mutiny.