Unfurling the Sails

UNFURLING THE SAILS is a high-stakes young adult fantasy adventure page-turner set within the world of author Sarah Branson’s Pirates of the New Earth series for adults. Fourteen-year-old Grey Shima’s boat is smashed to pieces and destroyed by an out-of-control yacht when she’s picked up by a dingy holding her enemy, twenty-nine-year-old Ashton Abernathy and his party boy pal, Brian. The uneasy alliance the three are forced to forge to survive is exacerbated by their age differences, which may make some readers uncomfortable. The chapters while lost at sea are among the strongest in the book; how they figure out the way to piece together their skills, talents, and knowledge in order to survive makes for as much of an emotional adventure as a physical one.