![]() ![]() Somehow, the pirate leader secures her own marine escort and coerces Cassandra to rear the creature. Cassandra hesitates too long in killing herself, per her dad’s instruction in order to keep the proprietary secrets, and Santa Elena captures her. On her first voyage, her first Reckoner, a terrapoid-a half-turtle, half–marine iguana hybrid “the size of a football field” and named Durga-is killed while trying to protect her assigned ship from the attack of the pirate leader Santa Elena. ![]() Cassandra, like her dad, trains the aquatic escorts. ![]() The governments hire businesses like the one owned by Cassandra Leung’s mom, which create genetically modified sea monsters called Reckoners to destroy the pirates and their vessels. Pirates, quite a few who are born on sovereign flotillas, are the new world threat. ![]() In Skrutskie’s debut, swelling seas and a one-world government rearrange national boundaries. Can she resist the adrenaline rush of a pirate’s life to keep the world aright? The world’s geopolitical balance rests on a genetically modified sea monster and his 17 1/2–year-old trainer. ![]()
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