Prim, Puritan-raised Eleanor set out on this voyage to reunite with the love of her life. What she got instead was a pirate attack followed by near devouring by an enormous kraken. Now, stranded with Julien, a surly French pirate boy—one of the very ruffians who, just hours before, threatened her life—Eleanor must learn to overcome her prejudices. But Julien has secrets of his own, and Eleanor comes to suspect that it may not be coincidence that led the two of them to this island together.

Savage Seas is part of Beneath the Black Flag, a series of interconnected standalone adventure novels that can be read in any order.

Inès fled her opulent life as French nobility for adventure on the high seas. But when Will Sands, a handsome young pirate captain, captures her ship and holds her for ransom, she fears she’ll lose the precious independence she’s fought so hard to gain. Inès hatches a plot to sabotage her captors’ ship, but after a few shared adventures with these pirates she begins to question what it is exactly that she’s searching for.

Tally of the Tides is part of Beneath the Black Flag, a series of interconnected standalone adventure novels that can be read in any order.

The infamous pirate Captain Will Sands is dead, leaving his 17-year-old daughter Charlie the only person alive who knows about the secret treasure he spent his life hunting. Charlie must not only retake her father’s ship but complete his quest to find the mysterious treasure. But with Will Sands’ death, the trail to the treasure has gone cold. The defiant but roguishly handsome young sailor Charlie holds captive just might have the answers she needs…if only she can get him to talk.

Sinking Sands is part of Beneath the Black Flag, a series of interconnected standalone adventure novels that can be read in any order.

As the decoy queen, Isadora has spent her entire life training to mimic the queen of Caspar, all so that, in case of disaster, she can die in her place. But when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong and the real queen is accidentally killed, Isadora is left the only survivor who knows that she is not the real queen.

17-year-old Kristin has selective blindness. She can’t see, hear, feel, or smell her brother. This doesn’t stop them from becoming best friends, turning his unique invisibility into a game, but when the two of them are stranded alone during a blizzard, it doesn’t feel like a game anymore. Kristin will do everything she can to keep her little brother alive, but she’s the least qualified person in the world to do so.

A braided narrative winding between the streets of Nairobi, sun-spattered Chicago, and the bloody fields of medieval France, On Bread Alone follows three fiercely strong girls whose passion and determination may be the death of them, all the while raising the question: what does it really mean to hunger?

Sida was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came. First, they took her home, driving her family out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took her family members. They tried to take her, too. They tried to starve her, to wear her down with disease, to work her to death. Sida not only survived, but lived to see glimpses of beauty in a hideous world. She saw the light that penetrates even the fiercest darkness. She saw that there was hope.

Two Teaspoons of Rice is a memoir that tells the true story of how a young girl found hope and faith in one of history’s darkest moments.