num_pages: 291
description: It was a slender length of rusted steel tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash but not her. This was the tip of a rapier. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. The broken tip holds secrets though and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there she forms a desperate scheme to get homeone that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. Time travel swordplay and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
language: English
title: Steel
publisher: HarperTeen