The Rudder's Midnight Reckoning

About this book

Aboard the aging 19th-century merchant vessel Resolute, a makeshift family fights for survival against both an unforgiving ocean and the heavy weight of their own history. Twelve-year-old Kip is an underdog deck scrubber with a trembling hand and a profound intuition for sea currents, whose life is irrevocably tied to thirteen-year-old Mira, the fiercely protective daughter of the ship's stern sailmaker, Elias. When the Resolute embarks on its final, desperate run to a distant trading port, a devastating gale exposes hidden structural weaknesses in the hull—flaws born not of chance, but of desperate compromises made years prior. As the storm threatens to tear the ship apart and scatter the trio forever, the narrative weaves seamlessly across time, jumping from the terrifying present to the day Kip first arrived, to a quiet vow made in the dark, and into haunting flashes of a future they must fight to avoid. With raw emotional intensity, the crew must confront their grief and make the ultimate choice to build a family anew.

Book details

Genres:

Classic Romance, Historical Fiction, Maritime Adventure

Language:

en

Published:

2026-05-21

Content rating:

R