The Navigator

Inspired by the True Story of an American Legend Ellen Prentiss can navigate a ship through blinding fog and treacherous shoals using nothing but mathematics and the stars. In 1841, that makes her indispensable to any captain—and utterly unacceptable to a world that believes women belong in parlors, not on quarterdecks.

With the death of her captain father, Ellen’s lost her mentor, ship, and purpose, and faces the suffocating prospect of a future trapped on land—until her childhood friend returns as Captain Perkins Creesy, commander of a tea trader bound for China. Perk desperately needs a navigator skilled enough to shave precious weeks off the route to Canton—and Ellen needs passage back to the life that defines her.