Anne Sutton is turning eighteen in two months. Her only role in life is to marry well and have many children, which Anne wants nothing to do with. Headstrong and full of riotous ideas, Anne is determined to fight society’s norms and dreams of a life on the high seas like her brother. Now that Anne’s mother Lara has returned home, Anne has fallen into despair. Her mother was once a vibrant and a socially active woman but is now institutionalized most of the time and nearly catatonic.
Anne’s only sought out social contact is her lifelong friend and neighbor, Sarah Winters. Sweet, silly Sarah about whom Anne feels love and now something new and unfamiliar.
A family tragedy that involves one of Anne’s crystal creations, seems to set Anne free of her London restrictions and sends her off to live with her Aunt Miranda at the family sugar plantation in Barbados. During the voyage on her father’s ship and in the company of Captain Elizabeth Spencer, one of very few women in the Royal Navy, Anne begins to see the possibilities of a life different from the one she had always been expected to have.
While Anne is surprised to learn that, in each generation of the Sutton family, one person has the power to control crystals, others are aware of the power Anne will inherit when she turns eighteen – and they’re making plans to use it for their own ends.
Of course, life is what happens while you’re busy making plans. The West Indies, in this altered history, is stranger and more dangerous than Anne could imagine. Full of mysterious and strange happenings, Anne begins to find out getting what you want does not always work out for the best, including sharing a berth with a pirate king’s daughter named Éndira who sleeps with a knife under her pillow.
Anne will have to find the strength to become what she was always meant to be, a powerful Crystal Astrid.
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Anne Sutton is turning eighteen in two months. Her only role in life is to marry well and have many children, which Anne wants nothing to do with. Headstrong and full of riotous ideas, Anne is determined to fight society’s norms and dreams of a life on the high seas like her brother. Now that Anne’s mother Lara has returned home, Anne has fallen into despair. Her mother was once a vibrant and a socially active woman but is now institutionalized most of the time and nearly catatonic.
Anne’s only sought out social contact is her lifelong friend and neighbor, Sarah Winters. Sweet, silly Sarah about whom Anne feels love and now something new and unfamiliar.
A family tragedy that involves one of Anne’s crystal creations, seems to set Anne free of her London restrictions and sends her off to live with her Aunt Miranda at the family sugar plantation in Barbados. During the voyage on her father’s ship and in the company of Captain Elizabeth Spencer, one of very few women in the Royal Navy, Anne begins to see the possibilities of a life different from the one she had always been expected to have.
While Anne is surprised to learn that, in each generation of the Sutton family, one person has the power to control crystals, others are aware of the power Anne will inherit when she turns eighteen – and they’re making plans to use it for their own ends.
Of course, life is what happens while you’re busy making plans. The West Indies, in this altered history, is stranger and more dangerous than Anne could imagine. Full of mysterious and strange happenings, Anne begins to find out getting what you want does not always work out for the best, including sharing a berth with a pirate king’s daughter named Éndira who sleeps with a knife under her pillow.
Anne will have to find the strength to become what she was always meant to be, a powerful Crystal Astrid.