{"product_id":"ill-wind-a-caribbean-pirate-adventure-9781910115718","title":"Ill Wind: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karen Perkins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lionheart Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lionheart Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sea Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA historical adventure novella, introducing the Valkyrie Series by international award-winning author and ex-champion sailor, Karen Perkins. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement - a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLargely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable - at first. Once married, Gabriella's life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46494705385623,"sku":"9781910115718","price":681.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781910115718.webp?v=1769174937","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ill-wind-a-caribbean-pirate-adventure-9781910115718","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}