When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka, and as the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
- ISBN: 9781442483002
- Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
- Published: 2014 , Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman
- Themes: Coming of age, Conduct of life, History, Middle Ages, princess, Sex role, Sisters, Voyages and travels
- Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, Nordic, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 384