Author(s): Mardi McConnochie

Adventure and Real Life Stories

Twins Annalie and Will are sailing halfway across the world to find their missing father, while trying to evade the all-powerful Admiralty that governs their world in this highly original nautical adventure story with a speculative fiction twist.

Kathleen's review - I can thoroughly recommend this book. It has a great beginning - straight into tension and action, and continues throughout. Twins Will and Annalie are joined by Essie, a rich girl and Annalie's only friend at the school her father convinced her to go to, and later by Pod, a runaway indentured worker (slave by any other name).

When I was a teenager I knew a family who'd grown up around boats, so the twins' abilities at sailing are completely believable. The scenario is also believable - a future where our planet has suffered disastrous flooding and where military power (the Admiralty) has taken control. 

The pace is great, the kids are excellent characters, and there are more in the series!