\'Signed by the Author\' sticker on front cover, signature on title page. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail. So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears.A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore.Pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler\'s hand, and ghost women with lampreys\' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.