Title: The Rathbones
Description: Mercy, the fifteen-year-old heir of a once-prosperous seafaring dynasty in New England, spends her days in a crumbling ancestral mansion. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years. With her reclusive cousin Mordecai, Mercy studies the secrets of Greek history and navigation before embarking on a voyage that reveals her family's haunted history.
Subjects: Young women, Families, Whaling, Fiction, Family life, Fiction, family life, Fiction, historical, general, Young women, fiction, New england, fiction
Places: New England