Charis and The Book of Storms

In her eyes sleeps a hurricane, in her heart a keg of sable powder. She is the Captain of The Black Azrael and she has my ticket out of London, but only if I agree to help her look for something that has already claimed the lives of a hundred souls far braver than I. Her name is Charis and I can’t say no to her. Her ship leaves tonight. And I’ll be on it. And so begins, as told from a gender-neutral narrator, the first-hand account of Charis and The Book of Storms, a perilous seabound adventure best described as Pirates of the Carribean meets The Book Thief. Set in the civilized mayhem of 1903, books are expensive and valuable resources. The rarer the book, the more it fetches on the open market as bourgeois seek to expand their libraries in an arms race of knowlege and literature. Charis, who was born on a ship and has spent her entire life at sea, has become the best book-snatching marauder in the world, and has been tasked by an eccentric Duke to find and recover a magical book that can supposedly control the weather. But Charis is not the only one who knows about The Book of Storms and the hunt for its empire-making potential is on. So Charis rounds up her international crew of misfits and sails The Black Azrael into the heart of the sea. This YA Fantasy standalone is expecting publication in mid 2017.